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Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:52 PM

Newspaper nails story about excessive data copy fees

Officials in Horry County, S.C., want to charge a newspaper $284 for data that probably shouldn't cost more than $25, if anything. The county wants to charge $130 in programming fees and then 10 cents per record for 1,541 records. That's outrageous.
posted by DavidCuillier | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:15 AM

House passes bill to require White House to keep e-mails

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Electronic Message Preservation Act (H.R. 5811) Wednesday by a vote of 286 to 137, scoring a victory for openness in federal agency e-mails. In particular, the bill would preserve White House e-mails and
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