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Lycoming County commissioners took time at Tuesday’s meeting to stress the importance of transparency in government and freedom of the press.
Toward that end, they passed a proclamation to designate this week as Sunshine Week in the county.
The state Sunshine Act and the state’s Right-to-Know Law ensure the public’s access to government information through public meetings and documents.
Commissioner Rick Mirabito said it comes down to holding government officials accountable for their actions.
It was James Madison, he noted, who drafted the Bill of Rights, which included the guarantee of free press. Madison, who went on to become the nation’s fourth President, was born on March 16.
Wed, 01/27/2021
LAWRENCE For at least a century, ecologists have wondered at the tendency for populations of different species to cycle up and down in steady, rhythmic patterns.
“These cycles can be really exaggerated really huge booms and huge busts and quite regular,” said Daniel Reuman, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas and senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey. “It attracted people’s attention because it was kind of mysterious. Why would such a big thing be happening?”
A second observation in animal populations might be even harder to fathom: Far-flung communities of species, sometimes separated by hundreds of miles, often fluctuate in synchrony with one another an effect known as “spatial synchrony.”