Bill Girdner

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Bill Girdner

Around me there is rage. Rage against all the crazy stuff the President does. But I watched him telling the press about Sam Sneed and I was kind of smiling and impressed, as I have been before, by his ability to make up stuff, sort of know it, with everybody else kinda knowing it, and get away with it. The Financial Times interviewed a biographer of Sam Sneed who said the golfer never said anything like what Trump claimed, that if they give you a putt, you should take it. Complete malarkey.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Bill Girdner

When we first arrived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, I drove to a girls club softball field, where cars were parked on the lush green grass. My nephew’s daughter was about to bat for her team. She whacked a respectable single down the third base line and made it to first, whereupon her coach, who was pitching, called the game. Her team was too far ahead.

2 months ago | courthousenews.com | Bill Girdner

In the fall of 2004, on the 12th floor of the government building in Minneapolis, a court administrator brought a reporter into her office and, during a conversation, said words to the effect, “We support the press here.”She then took the reporter for Courthouse News across the hall and into a docketing room where new civil pleadings were piled in a stack on a small table that stood in a walkway between sectioned-off workspaces.

2 months ago | editorandpublisher.com | Bill Girdner

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 9:40 am In the fall of 2004, on the 12th floor of the government building in Minneapolis, a court administrator brought a reporter into her office and, during a conversation, said words to the effect, “We support the press here.” She then took the reporter for Courthouse News across the hall and into a docketing room where new civil pleadings were piled in a stack on a small table that stood in a walkway between sectioned-off workspaces. The stack was from that...

2 months ago | editorandpublisher.com | Bill Girdner

Posted Monday, April 14, 2025 10:01 am In a powerful example of how state courts can improve public access, the courts of Kansas opened a public website Thursday that allows press and public to see new court pleadings as they come across the virtual counter.