This time, it’s personal. Well, sort of. I thought I’d share some reflections of a recent working trip to Washington, D.C. It afforded me a rare and interesting opportunity to meet with the President of the United States in the Oval Office. On Friday, May 18, as I was waist-deep in the final day of the 2018 […]
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Jefferson City is a company town. The company is the State of Missouri. You cannot throw a rock and not hit someone who works for the state, or is married to someone who works for the state, or lives next door to someone who works for the state. As a result, anyone who reports news
The Missouri Sunshine Law, the legislation requiring open government meetings and records, celebrates its 45th birthday in 2018, and it’s showing some middle-age stress in its efforts to bring transparency to state government. Some of that is driven by partisan politics, but evolving communications technology — technology not really envisioned in 1973 — puts on
