Newspapers to Keep Close Eye on Lawmakers After High Court Rules They Are Subject to the Public Records Act

Commentary by Patrick Grubb

Posted 1/9/20

In 1869, the Daily Cleveland Herald quoted lawyer John Godfrey Saxe as saying, “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” That saying, or …

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