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The Jackson Clarion Ledger has an article today that continues to raise the question of just how compliant public officials are when it comes to following the state's open records law. Every government employee ultimately works for the people who pay taxes. This is not an issue between journalists and government, although that is where the battleground usually exists, instead this is a fundamental issue between every citizen and state government.  You can read the article here.

I've always thought that private enterprise tends to be better than government at organization and execution when it comes to many tasks.

However, this article, which points out that a large chunk of government data now resides upon Google servers, has caused me to question what we give up when we allow a corporation to assume this job.

Should this be something that government outsources? Is this a security risk and is it a growing one at that?

Here's the link: Our Google Government

I think it's time for a resurgence in Journalism that holds to the ideals of honesty, integrity, and a focus on what government is doing.

I think it's time for the 4th estate to return to it's position of being on watch.

Here's a link to what todays' journalism has unfortunately become:

Presses stopped forever at 140+ papers in 2009

This is an interview with Wendell Potter a former executive with Cigna insurance by Bill Moyers.

Watch the interview here.

Astronaut and University of Kentucky graduate Story Musgrave has an awesome photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ground shrouded by fog from April 1983. Here's the link.