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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Sunshine Week Column for You....

In Sunday's Kansas City Star...

Sunshine Week is an occasion for thinking about the importance of access to governmental information — not the sexiest of topics, admittedly, but sometimes the things we take for granted have a way of sneaking up on us.

Every week is Sunshine Week at the National Freedom of Information Coalition, a nonprofit academic center at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. My job consists of helping a never-ending array of requesters with information requests languishing at all levels of government, from federal agencies to local boards.

Think that freedom of information is some special-interest fetish of the press? Think again...

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