Public Good
Inaugural Closed Door Award
Today’s post marks the inauguration of the “Closed Door Award,” an award that is given to distinguish gratuitous use of executive session by a governmental body.
The gratuitous use of executive session is anathema to good government and open government.
Now there is a way to recognize when a governmental body inappropriately shuts the public out. [...]
The Busy-Body, No. 1
Benjamin Franklin
February 4, 1728/9
The American Weekly Mercury
Mr. Andrew Bradford,
I design this to acquaint you, that I, who have long been one of your Courteous Readers, have lately entertain’d some Thoughts of setting up for an Author my Self; not out of the least Vanity, I assure you, or Desire of showing my Parts, but [...]
Joseph Ritz, Author of “The Despised Poor,” Returns to Newburgh
The Historical Society of the Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, The Newburgh Free Library, and the City Historian of Newburgh, NY welcomed Joseph P. Ritz back to Newburgh for a talk October 1, 2006, at 2 p.m. at the Newburgh Free Library.
Joseph P. Ritz was a reporter for The Newburgh Evening News in the 1960s [...]
