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Attorney Matteo-Boehm honored by California Lawyer for victories in FAC cases

FAC March 5, 2010

Congratulations to Attorney Rachel Matteo-Boehm of the law firm Holme Roberts & Owen, San Francisco for being named a Public Interest Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer Magazine.  The magazine singled out work on behalf of FAC in two important government transparency cases: CFAC v. Santa Clara and and CFAC& Maplight.org v. Office of Legislative Counsel in Sacramento. “Rachel’s dedication to government transparency extends beyond winning the decisions in these two important cases.” FAC

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Obama administration weighs FAC proposal to challenge China’s internet censorship in WTO

FAC March 3, 2010

FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer describes the administration’s interest as “an important step,” and details FAC’s position on the issue:”We believe that China’s censorship of the internet is not only a human rights issue but also a free trade issue. “That’s why FAC petitioned the US Trade Representative to challenge the firewall before the WTO. Google’s recent defiance of Chinese government censors, and its threat to pull out of China altogether, demonstrates the need for

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Palo Alto’s trio of newspapers staying alive in hard times

FAC March 1, 2010

The online news boom and the busted U.S. economy have combined to make community newspapers an endangered species.  So how does Palo Alto manage to support three newspapers–The Palo Alto Weekly, The Daily Post and The Daily News? The New York Times asked that question of the newspapers’ publishers, including FAC board member Bill Johnson, who is publisher of the Weekly, as well as President and CEO of Embarcadero Media which owns the Weekly and

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Haiti Rewired: Wired.com tackles Haiti’s reconstruction with online collaboration

FAC February 5, 2010

Haiti Rewired launched by Wired.com following the January earthquake, is an innovative response to the problem of on-going disaster relief. Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen, a member of FAC’s board, calls the project an online “collaboration of writers, editors, technologists, researchers, geographers, infrastructure specialists, aid groups and others” dedicated to rebooting Haiti’s future. Haiti Rewired’s Mission Statement Posted by Evan Hansen on January 22, 2010 at 7:30pm View Evan Hansen’s blog Quake-ravaged Haiti faces a long-term emergency,

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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

FAC November 10, 2009

By Donal Brown Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon said that favorable circumstances set the stage for the stories on Las Vegas construction deaths that earned her a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service when she was with the Las Vegas Sun. It is clear, though, that her success in the project derived centrally from her determined questioning: Why were there so many workers dying on the strip? And why were the companies able to

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