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PAUL MALAMUD
EDITOR

THADDEUS A. MIKSINSKI, JR.
ART DIRECTOR

ELLEN M. KATZ
IS A FREELANCE WRITER
WHO WRITES FREQUENTLY ABOUT
U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.

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Transparency in Government —
How American Citizens Influence Public Policy

by Ellen M. Katz

“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. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
            — former U.S. President James Madison, 1822

 

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