robbins, legendary new york reporter, now investigative reporter and residents here and a finalist for pulitzer prize investigative reporting last week, so congratulations. and we have jessica hughes men, who is a reporter for the teachers project. obviously focusing on education. and a lot of fun this last year with the city department of education, which he will talk about later on. , whoe have justin elliott has done amazing work specifically on spending issues at the red cross, which he will talk about tonight as well. i want to thank the panelists for agreeing to do this, i promise it won t hurt too much. let s jump right into it. andy, what is the craziest response you have ever gotten? the craziest response? at, i ve hadursed agencies in sit of routing my myt and retreating request and treating it and medially giving it in the hands of political operatives to be you toally expedient for decide whether to release that information was beneficial. so they are not ju
[applause] jessica: hello, i am vice president on the board and the event chair. welcome to everybody. we are excited and honored to have an illustrious panel of investigative journalists today. this is ethics week at the society of professional journalists, which is the national version of the deadline club, which is the new york chapter. there is a lot going on in freedom of information, it is the 50th anniversary of the freedom of information act. one thing our national society is proud of and we think is important is our legal defense fund just gave a $10,000 grant to a nonprofit organization in new orleans which has been consistently not giving over public records on public purchases. that is the kind of battle that is going on. you may know that under the obama administration, while president obama has promised incredible transparency, in fact there have been a record number of foia lawsuits under his administration. they have doubled this year from when he first took o
they re closer to a solution. but now busing is the challenge. intro parents, teachers and students.. hi i m maya. many don t know eeh other but they re working together to find a solution. elementary starts at 7:45, secondary at 8:45. finding a way to make these numbers fit. it s the group s second go- around. lori roetlin - iccsd board member the consensus last time was that elementary should start before secondary. a possible fix that flip-flops how bell times work now. but bus routes make that solutioioa little sticky. right now we have it tiered so that buses go out pick up secondary student, drop them all off, and then get the elementary students, so we re looking at do we want to continue doing it that way or do we want to try something elel. bus guy now, that number is down to 90, under a tiered system that reduces cost. but that means bus drivers need an hour between picking up one tier of another - making for long wait times at elementaries and late arrivals
lifting in this afternoon, it appears it really won t have much moisture along it until tonight, whwh isolated showers are possible. the day should be dry with highs back into the upper 40s to mid-50s. plan on a wet weekend with rounds of rain pushing across the area. the period of heaviest rain still looks to be saturday night into sunday with widespread amounts of 2 on average. there may be isolated higher or lowewe totals, but everybooy will get a thorough soaking. any moisture leftover on monday may go to a brief mix, but the vast majority of this event will be rain. our weather turns cooler by next week with highs dropping down to the 30s and 40s. have a great weekend!toda y: partly sunny high: 49-55 winds: se 5-15 alo: 49 dbq: 50 iow: 53tonight: chance of showers low: 44-50 winds: s 5 50 alo: 44 dbq: 43 3 iow: 47t7torrow: showers/storms late high: 52-58 winds: se 5-15 alo: 55 dbq: 55 iow: 58tomorrow night: showers/stor ms low: 54-60 winds: se 10-20 alo: 54 dbq: 55 iow:
whistleblowers. it was certainly the appetizers the section on the maintenance of discipline and good order and dutch gone on to beat my prime concern but one whistleblower remains defiant. we are coming over all of the allegations made. in addition to these crocs terminations. go. the garda commissioner has strongly rejected claims by gawd of whistleblowers that the penalty points system has been abused. speaking of global it companies dave martin cullen said the was no evidence of corruption or malpractice. he criticized the inquiry saying the accounts committee was not the appropriate forum for guard the tomb a criminal complaints about their colleagues. the commissioner said that it would take legal advice ahead of the riposte appearance at the committee of two of the whistleblowers next week. the garda commissioner on to the accounts committee today that the message that although the hump in weaknesses in the penalty points system has now been strengthened and is subject