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There's a warning for that!
Falcon Heights Mayor Peter Lindstrom is encouraging people in his city to use a new iPhone app called "See Click Fix". The concept is simple. If you see a pothole you can take a picture of it and send it to the city. The city administrator is notified directly. The geo-coding on the picture tells the city where the pothole is and they can go fix it.MORE »
Freedom of Information Day: Celebrating access to government
The annual Freedom of Information Day is upon us March 16, sponsored by the Minnesota Council on Government information (MN-COGI).MORE »
When the journalist becomes part of the story
Back at the beginning of November, Brian Hokanson, a writer acquaintance of mine from TC Indymedia, wrote me and asked me if I would be interested in covering the story of Carrie Feldman and Scott Demuth, two animal rights activists who had been subpoenaed to a grand jury in Davenport Iowa. I had read a little bit about the case on TC Indymedia, and I passed along Hokanson's email to my editor, Mary Turck, and asked if she wanted me to write about the two cases. Little did I know then that I would eventually become a part of the story myself. MORE »
Celebrating freedom of information and a Minnesota birthday
The Minnesota Coalition on Government Information (MNCOGI) turns 21 on March 16, which is also, appropriately enough, national Freedom of Information Day. Minnesota's Freedom of Information Day celebration (see sidebar) will mark both events, honoring Reed Anfinson, recipient of the 2010 John R. Finnegan Freedom of Information Award.MORE »
OPINION | Deciding what's fit to print
Although they might differ about exactly when it started, most cultural historians would agree that we're in the information age. Our access to data of every description is unprecedented and grows by the minute. We've come to expect that whatever we want to know should be just a few mouse clicks away.
One casualty of the information age has been the news cycle.MORE »
ALA's support for Net Neutrality rooted in immoral fiction
For those of us familiar with the culture of libraries, it was not much of a shocker that the American Library Association decided to put its name to a letter to the Federal Communications Commission on the issue of net neutrality.MORE »
Minnesotans get involved in E-Democracy
The discussion began when Minneapolis Ward 2 City Council member Cam Gordon posted a University of Minnesota Police crime alert about a robbery that took place the previous day to E-Democracy.org's online Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside Neighbors Forum. The police report contained language indicating the suspects "spoke with an east African accent," and the next day, neighbors had questions about the report for Gordon, who represents the near-campus neighborhood. MORE »
TCDP's Sheila Regan gets court records opened
Secret court proceedings will see the light of day, according to an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on TC Daily Planet reporter Sheila Regan's motion to open the records of contempt proceedings against Carrie Feldman. The appeals court allowed further government delay in opening the records, drawing a sharp dissent from Judge Bye, one of the three-judge panel hearing the case:MORE »
The dis-content of our times
I think I now have a name for it--for our era, the brave new world we've made for ourselves. The clue came when I asked a neighbor kid, a college senior, about a blockbuster movie he had just seen.
"It was great," he said.
I nagged him to tell me more. "What made it great?"
"The special effects."
I nagged again. "Anything else?"
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