Twenty patients of an oncology clinic in the Dallas area were sickened by medical syringes contaminated with bacteria. The bacterium, called Serratia marcescens, can cause fever and chills but generally responds to antibiotics.
Some of the Dallas-area patients became so ill after the bacterial exposure that they required hospitalization.
However, Texas Department of State Health […]
Pennsylvania legislative leaders have paid out-of-state companies $466,000 this year to conduct focus groups and public-opinion surveys. Even though the polls have been paid for by taxpayer dollars, the politicians have refused to release the results.
Politicians are afraid of only two things; being publically embarrassed and being voted out of office. Release of […]
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
After all what could be more upsetting than reading a report on safety problems? How upsetting is actually dying […]
Bridge inspection reports can legally remain secret, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has decided.
Bridge maintenance is a life and death matter as so clearly proven by the recent I35 Minneapolis bridge collapse. In 1990, the Minneapolis bridge was inspected by the US Department of Transportation and found to be “structurally deficient.” In […]
Iran’s judiciary has sealed off the offices of a popular news Web site critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies after journalists continued to update it despite official filtering, the Web site said. The site, when accessed via a link outside Iran, indicated it was last updated on Sept. 23.
In addition, two prominent pro-reform newspapers, […]
Gov. Chris Gregoire has refused to reveal the identities of some people who weren’t picked for seats on the state’s new “Sunshine Committee.”
The Sunshine Committee’s job is to sort through the more than 300 exemptions to the state’s Public Records Act and prepare a report by Nov. 15 in which it will recommend that the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why would the largely privately-funded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum want to restrict access to historical archives in contradiction to its stated purpose to exist in the first place? If the records support the long-told official story, one would think that the the museum would want the widest possible distributed access to the actual historical […]
A Detroit television reporter was able to confirm that the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, a nonprofit created by Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, paid the luxury La Costa Hotel and Spa $8,605.03 for two rooms for Kilpatrick, his wife and sons while the mayor, according to fund officials, was there fundraising for the group.
At the insistence of […]