When the Blue Lake City Council voted in a May 13 closed session to ratify a severance agreement with its longtime City Manager Amanda “Mandy” Mager, it violated California government transparency laws for the second time in a week. The council met that day with two items on the closed session agenda — the possible […]
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NCJ’s Greenson Wins Free Speech and Open Government Award
The First Amendment Coalition has announced its Free Speech and Open Government Award winners for 2023, honoring the work of the Journal‘s own News Editor Thadeus Greenson alongside journalists at The New York Times, Bloomberg and MuckRock. The annual award recognizes “outstanding contributions to the advancement of free expression or the people’s right to know […]