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| Preserve access to public records | Lawmakers may yet find a way to honor the provisions of the 1972 state Public Records Act while protecting cities, counties and other local agencies from unreasonable costs in fulfilling requests for public documents. But a House Bill that, as written, would allow governments to spend as little鈥 |
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| Fine tune, but don't overhaul state Public Records Act | As the voters said when adopting the Public Records Act in 1972: 鈥淭he people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them.鈥 The people use public records to learn what their government is up to, so they can maintain control. But under an evolving鈥 |
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| Erb wins journalism award for advancing government access | |||
| 25th anniversary of spotted owl listing: fewer owls, less timber industry | The heated debate over whether to curtail the logging of old-growth forests to protect the northern spotted owl was at full throttle when the federal government declared the bird a threatened species June 22, 1990. At the time, environmentalists worried that the federal plan would fall鈥 |