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SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2005
UNLOCK YOUR GOVERNMENT: SUNSHINE SUNDAY/OPEN RECORDS
• Agencies' responses: From speedy to silent
• The 155 secrets
• Timeline: National history
• Timeline: Georgia history
GWINNETT
• Citizens speak up in the Voice of Gwinnett
• Lawmakers share their opinions
HEROES
• The waters' chief guardian
• Make records 'as accessible as possible'
• Political opposites find common cause
• Corruption? The jig is up
• Simple query, complex scheme
• Keeper's flame: 'They're not my records'
• 'You have to be involved'
• On the front lines in the war on secrets
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005
• Atlanta
RECENT COVERAGE
Land deals are your business
Call to Action
A dark day for public
Secrecy bill: Keep earfuls coming
Guest column
LUCKOVICH CARTOONS
• Putting the screws on Georgians
NEWS ARTICLES
Shaping your neighborhood
• Intown neighborhood warriors
• Cherokee
• Clayton
• Cobb
• Neighborhood warriors in Cobb
• DeKalb
• Rockdale
• Coach mobilizes forces vs. Avondale Wal-Mart
• Fayette, Coweta
• Northside
• Northside neighborhood warriors
• Gwinnett
• The path of most resistance
SUNDAY, FEB. 27, 2005
The stories here were selected to show the ways open records laws help us know what's happening in our community. Each contains key information obtained through requests for records that federal or state laws require be available to the public.
MONDAY, FEB. 28, 2005
Open government
OPINION
• Oppose legislation that would allow negotiations to be conducted in secret
Whom to contact
• The Georgia Legislature thinks you don't care
• Let the sun shine in? No way, says Georgia House, as it votes to override the state's open-records laws
• Secrecy only clouds decision-making
• 'Here's our call to action . . .'
• Even in its amended form, secrecy legislation deserves to die, as angry constituents demand
• CYNTHIA TUCKER: Cloaks chafe democracy
• JIM WOOTEN: Secrecy betrays the real Georgia
• JIM WOOTEN: Encourage business, but count silver
• JIM WOOTEN: GOP prepares wrong message
• Attorney General Thurbert Baker: Don't infringe on public's right to know
• For Georgians' own good
• Secrecy bill under metro, rural attack
• Secrecy bill still stuck in state Senate
• Secrecy bill on hold; GOP tries to regroup
• Town riled over secrecy on waste site
• State wants more data off-limits
• Slow pace on open records urged
• Critics say bills ignore public
• Perdue mum on business secrecy
• Secrecy: Talks would be kept under wraps
• Bill trades secrecy for jobs
• Open records opening up
• 'Classified' label sticks more easily since 9/11 attacks
• Sunshine pours in over doomsayers' warnings
• Internet ushers in a 'new reality'
• New fears shorten reach of old law
• Law 'not just for journalists'
• Mother breaks down barriers to education
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