March 12-18 is Sunshine Week. Associations, institutions and organizations connected to journalism will celebrate the initiative to promote open government, which was launched in 2005 . . .
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3/9/23
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Efforts to get even the most basic details of a taxpayer-funded contract intended to protect the computer networks inside the Nassau County government remain hidden after officials in Mineola denied a request to see it.
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By Mark Nolan
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12/22/22
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More than two months after the election for Sanitary District 1 commissioner between Gabriel Boxer and Gwynette Campbell, the legal maneuvering continues.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/22/22
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Journalists celebrate James Madison’s birthday — March 16 — as part of “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative created by the American Society of News Editors to educate all of us about the importance of open government.
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3/10/22
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The installation of a stop sign at an intersection in Woodmere has left resident Michael Mann perplexed as to why it was requested by a non-Five Towns resident.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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6/2/21
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Amid all the clamor over Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment and misreporting of nursing home deaths, you would have thought nothing else was happening in Albany at the moment. You would be wrong.
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3/25/21
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No matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to get away from Donald J. Trump. Case in point: In the past, much of the discussion at the New York Press Association’s April convention . . .
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4/20/17
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Elected leaders often look upon the Freedom of Information Act with barely disguised disapproval, and more often with outright disdain. Heck, the president who signed the act . . .
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3/23/17
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The Village of Island Park failed to respond to any of the eight attempts that the Press Club of Long Island made to request records, according to the organization’s recent Open Records Report Card, and earned a zero, or “F.”
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By Ben Strack
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3/21/17
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The Elmont School District has agreed to comply with nonprofit transparency group Reclaim New York’s Freedom of Information Law request for records of the district’s 2014 expenditures after …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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