The former chief of staff to the late Gov. Reubin Askew is now asking the Florida Supreme Court to throw out the state’s blind trust law, saying it violates the constitutional requirement that public officials to fully disclose their financial assets. Jim Apthorp, who served as Askew’s chief of staff, lost his appeal to the […]
Sunshine Week should turn up the heat – The Washington Times
This week is “Sunshine Week,” a nonprofit, nonpartisan national initiative launched by the American Society of News Editors to “promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information.” What better time to focus on a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that allows the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to designate companies it deems “too big […]
