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When certain people are involved, be suspicious, VERY suspicious!

Sunshine in those dark corners… . One of the main characters involved in our ongoing Right to Know lawsuits currently pending at the NH Supreme Court is Belmont state representative John Thomas, a member of the Belknap County Convention. He is the brains behind that group’s misguided attempts at hiding from the public behind closed doors …

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Shining Light into the Dark Corners of Government: Belknap County Officials to Conduct Open Meeting (For a change)

. Well well. It took a few tries, but the Belknap County Convention, currently involved in two Right-To-Know Law suits before the NH Supreme Court, faced with the prospect of selecting another appointee to fill the term of a resigned Constitutional Officer, in this case, the Registrar of Deeds, will do so in an open process. Getting …

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Sunday read: Right-to-Know lawsuit. Brief to the NH Supreme Court

. For those of you that care (given the open-government ramifications, every NH citizen should) I am posting the brief we filed for the second case we have pending in the Supreme Court. In case you don’t recall, former Laconia Mayor Thomas A. Tardif and I have two cases going right now, involving the Belknap County Convention– …

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“A striking verdict against government secrecy” Could Tennessee case be prelude to similar Supreme Court case here in NH?

. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the following story from Tennessee on the very day that Tom Tardif and I put the finishing touches on the brief for our second case before the NH Supreme Court involving the Right-to-Know law. You’ll recall that the two cases involve, in whole or in part, members of …

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Update on Right to Know lawsuits

. . Today’s Citizen (Laconia, NH) has a nice synopsis of where the ongoing Right to Know lawsuits we are involved with stand right now. Click here to read Cutter Mitchell’s reporting of our contention that the Belknap County Convention violated the Right to Know law in the process by which they appointed a replacement for …

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