Executioners and drug suppliers to be secret in Miss.
A legal veil of secrecy could drop over much of the execution process in Mississippi under a bill agreed on by House and Senate negotiators.
Our View: Secrecy is the enemy of trust
On Monday, several media outlets, including The Dispatch, were denied the chance to attend a review of the ballots cast in the Ward 5 city council runoff.
Mississippi Senate passes execution secrecy bill
The names of employees and family members at an execution, as well as the pharmacy providing lethal drugs, would be kept secret under a bill passed Tuesday by the Mississippi Senate.
Our View: Old habits are hard to break
You know you have a habit when you preform the behavior even without thinking about it.
Case in point: Columbus city government.
Public’s right to know improves accountability
Sunshine Week is an opportunity to remind people of the principle of the public’s right to know about government decisions and actions that affect their lives.
Our view: City’s policies are an insult to the people
A few months ago, we paused to reflect on the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which included the inspiring line: “…this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
NSA spying revelations reframe digital life for some
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost
Our view: Let’s hear it for government secrecy!
Imagine, if you will, that a state legislator was promoting a bill that would allow the government to collect information on its citizens and hide it from the public.
What do you suppose the reaction would be?