Archive for November, 2011

Idaho restricts witness access to execution

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

The Idaho Department of Correction says it will not allow media witnesses to view the entire execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades, and two separate groups are protesting the policy, the Associated Press reports. Rhoades is scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday, making him the first person to be executed under Idaho’s new lethal injection guidelines.

From the Associated Press

Open Government Means Informed Citizenry

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

When residents of U.S. Highway 12 started hearing rumors about giant megaloads rolling past their homes, they found out what was really going on by filing public records requests.

Op-ed from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News