State employee e-mails are subject to Freedom of Information requests made by the public under Virginia’s open-government laws … which also allow the costs of providing records to be passed along to the requester. But the e-mails have become so voluminous and cluttered that costs to retrieve them have skyrocketed. And as Virginia Public Radio’s Anne Marie Morgan reports, the Freedom of Information Advisory Council is concerned that steep charges could have a chilling effect.
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From NPR News- Civil War Battlefield 'Limb Pit' Reveals Work Of Combat Surgeons June 20, 2018Scientists have been analyzing bones first uncovered by a utility crew digging at the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. The remains provide insights into surgery during the Civil War.
- Dow Jones Drops GE, A Member Of The Original Industrial Average In 1896 June 20, 2018As recently as 2005, according to Reuters, General Electric was the most valuable publicly traded company in the United States. It will be replaced by the parent company of Walgreens pharmacies.
- China Tells Farmers To Grow More Soybeans Amid Trade Fight With U.S. June 20, 2018After hitting U.S. soybeans with retaliatory tariffs, China is seeking alternatives to supply its important crop.
- Migrant Children Heard Crying On Tape Are The Voices 'Left Out' Conversation June 20, 2018Children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and held at a Border Patrol facility are heard wailing inconsolably in seven minutes of audio obtained by ProPublica.
- 'Manu' On Fire: France's Macron Tears Into Teen Who Calls Him By Nickname June 19, 2018In a video posted to Twitter Monday, the president of France tore into a teenager who called him 'Manu,' a common nickname for Emmanuel in French, during an event at a World War II memorial.
- Civil War Battlefield 'Limb Pit' Reveals Work Of Combat Surgeons June 20, 2018
- From BBC News
- Gosport hospital deaths: Independent panel findings due June 19, 2018A panel has analysed hundreds of patient death certificates at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
- US quits 'biased' UN human rights council June 20, 2018The US envoy to the UN called the 47-member council "hypocritical and self-serving".
- Canada legalises recreational cannabis use June 20, 2018It becomes the second country in the world to allow recreational use of the drug nationwide.
- The FBI said I was my parents' stolen baby - but I found the truth June 20, 2018Foundling Paul Fronczak was given to a family whose baby had been stolen - but was he really their son?
- World Cup 2018: How to party like a Russian June 20, 2018With Russia virtually in the World Cup second round, thousands of people partied through the night.
- Gosport hospital deaths: Independent panel findings due June 19, 2018
