Once again, here’s a glimpse at some of our colleagues’ work that we admired this week. Reporter Clive Goodman and investigator Glenn Mulcaire of News of the World, a British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, have pleaded guilty to hacking into the cell phones of members of England’s royal family, the New York Times reported. And [...]

While Bayer CropScience officials aren’t saying what the phase-out of the pesticide aldicarb means for employees at their Institute plant in West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley, the news doesn’t sound good for workers at a related plant in Georgia. According to this article from the Tribune and Georgian, Bayer has already announced plans to shut down its [...]

Today’s issue of The State Register contained two meetings that violated the public notice requirements of West Virginia’s open meetings law. The agencies involved were the Fayette County Board of Health and the Information Technology Council. As we’ve reminded folks before, the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act requires agencies to send meeting [...]