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Podcast: Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck
Episode: Randy Evans, Iowa Freedom of Information Council
Description: The picture above is not of the esteemed Randy Evans, executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, our special podcast guest in this episode. It is meant to portray a stereotype of secretive public officials who don’t want you, the taxpayer, to know things, like lawsuits filed against public officials or cost overruns on public expenditures. There’s a lot of stonewalling going on, more than ever, and this tiny nonprofit organization stands up tall to hold our ‘representative’ government accountable. Why does it matter? You have a right to know how taxpayer...