Whether it’s a hernia repair or heart bypass, doctors with a lot of experience performing a given operation tend to have better results. The problem for patients in choosing a physician has been finding out which ones have the know-how.
In a little-noticed decision last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of […]

The salaries of government employees in California, including police officers, are a public record and must be available upon request.
The right to privacy argument against dislosure made by employee unions “is not a reasonable one,” the justices wrote, ending a lawsuit the Contra Costa Times filed more than three years ago against the city of […]

Aaron T. Gunn, a politically connected former teacher has avoided the sex offender registry for two years after pleading guilty to having sex with an eighth-grade student.
State Representative Chuck Espy, a Democrat from Clarksdale, was a scheduled character witness for Gunn. The judge says that during the trial, Espy patted Gunn on the back and […]

Wikipedia is a web-based free content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. It currently contains about 2 million articles.
Anybody can anonymously create a Wikipedia entry or modify an existing entry. A new WEB site maps Wikipedia entries to the known Internet addresses of several political and commercial entities.
The Open Records Project […]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Clinton’s calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her husband’s […]

AT&T Inc said on Thursday a company it hired to handle the cybercast of a live concert by U.S. rock band Pearl Jam erroneously omitted lyrics criticizing U.S. President George Bush that were in a song performed by the band.
“AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s concerns over the power that corporations have […]

The 400,000-member American Bar Association’s policy-making body, the House of Delegates, is scheduled to vote on the resolutions at the group’s national convention in San Francisco on Aug. 13 and 14. One proposal recommended by an ABA commission urges local, state and federal governments to seal the records of criminal cases in which convictions were […]