links for 2006-03-17

• phonoirlex: Sunshine Week
  Sunshine Week on a blog: "We're halfway through Sunshine Week, and it seems to be going mostly unnoticed. Kind of ironic. Tennessee is trying to shore up its own Sunshine laws, but its efforts are being rather forcefully attacked."
  (tags: Tennesee sunshine+week blogs law government info+access)
• Peter Porcupine: Trust Me!
  Sunshine Week irony: "at the same time (MA) Atty. General Tom Reilly reveals that he has signed a confidentiality agreement surrounding his 'investigation' into the Big Dig and Bechtel-Parsons-Brinkerhoff's potential financial malfeasance?"
  (tags: sunshine+week Massachusetts media newspapers mainstream+media government info+access blogs commentary)
• Sunshine Week: End The Closed WI Partisan Caucuses! (Talk To Tony)
  "The closed partisan caucuses are the main reason why the proposed C-Span style WisconsinEye television network, if it ever gets off the ground, will be mostly pointless."
  (tags: sunshine+week Wisconsin info+access government politics problem+solving blogs)
• Sunshine Week Polls and News (ASNE release)
  "2 natl. polls on the eve of the second natl. Sunshine Week open government initiative show a public that equates open government with effective democracy and is concerned about the rise in official secrecy at the national, state and local levels."
  (tags: sunshine+week PR+marketing nonprofits info+access government statistics)