Author: Jack Lail

  • First Amendment Encyclopedia launched

    Middle Tennessee State University has launched a “First Amendment Encyclopedia,” containing more 1,500 documents significant in the First Amendment’s history.

  • Can I take photos of public records?

    Even Tennessee lawmakers sometimes tire of government open records silliness. During a meeting of the Tennessee Legislature’s Joint Government Operations Committee earlier this week, Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, asked representatives of the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to ensure their open records policies…

  • The music business is back; are there clues for news?

    The music business has been growing for the last few years after going into a decline in 1999. And it doesn’t have to do with buying MP3s . The news and music industries have long been compared; they were disrupted by the Internet at about the same time and forever changed. Are there still lessons…