Inside the editorial page - A fix for an open government setback

What's on the minds of TNT editorial writers

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Posted by Kim Bradford @ 09:24:45 am

We editorialized a couple of weeks ago about the state Supreme Court decision that handed government agencies broad powers to keep documents secret and to fend off requests for public records.

This week, former state lawmaker Toby Nixon, who now heads the Washington Coalition for Open Government, and Jonathan Bechtle, director of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Citizenship and Governance Center, called on the Legislature to sew up the ever-widening attorney-client privilege loophole. This is something that we'll be watching closely this session.

Categories: Editorial outtakes • 1 comment

COMMENTS:

Comment by JosefK @ 13:27 - Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Kim - open gov't won't happen w/o chaps like you backing the attack. Thanks as a member of WashCOG!

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Inside the editorial page

Inside the editorial page

This blog is designed to give readers a glimpse of our editorial-page operation and how we make our decisions. We’ll let you know who we’re meeting with, what they’re telling us, what events and issues we’re looking at. We’ll also pass on information and observations that may not make our print editions. In addition to the editorial board members who post on this blog, the board includes Publisher Cheryl Dell and Executive Editor David Zeeck.

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Editorial page editor David Seago joined The News Tribune in 1967. He oversees the daily editorial and letters pages and the Sunday Insight section. E-mail him at david.seago@thenewstribune.com.

Chief editorial writer Patrick O’Callahan came to The News Tribune in 1987 and has worked at Washington newspapers since 1979. He writes the editorial board’s annual civic agenda published at the beginning of each year. E-mail him at patrick.ocallahan@thenewstribune.com

Editorial writer Cheryl Tucker began her journalism career in 1974 at a Virginia newspaper and came to The News Tribune in 1978. She is responsible for day-to-day production of the editorial and op-ed pages and editing letters to the editor. E-mail her at cheryl.tucker@thenewstribune.com.

Editorial writer Kim Bradford joined The News Tribune in 2005 after working 11 years at newspapers in Washington and Maryland. She manages this blog. E-mail her at kim.bradford@thenewstribune.com.