But that wasn’t the only example of the Assembly’s transparency deficit that night. Toward the end of the meeting, long after most audience members had left, Mayor Beth Weldon made a surprise ...

In a previous column I described several Assembly meetings where actions taken were less than transparent. That column discussed (1) an ordinance appropriating $50,000 to be used to advocate for the ...

In 2018, a light was finally being shined on police misconduct records after decades of secrecy. Sen. Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 1421 was landmark legislation that led to in-depth reporting, better ...