Loveland Reporter-Herald, March 16, 2008
By Cara O'Brien

“A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both.”
— President James Madison, Aug. 4, 1822

“Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.”
— Sen. Patrick Leahy, 1996

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