Firing: The links
As promised in my previous entry, I'm going to post some links about last night's firing of the city's attorney and hired counsel. Because money must be made everywhere and someone has apparently decided that having news online and available for the masses is a way to make money, I don't know how long these links will work. Please feel free to ask me for any article, and if it's drawing enough interest I'll make the text available on my own Web space (assuming it's an article I wrote).Hours into a closed session last night -- at which I was doing things like chatting with attorneys and fellow reporters in order to pass the time -- the city fired its attorneys, including the city attorney and their hired counsel. (I got some of the state bar info in that last article hours before the meeting started. I love digging up that kind of stuff.)
This came the day after a federal judge blasted the city's attorneys and their legal strategy (see transcript excerpts here).
I could keep posting tons of links, as I've written dozens of articles on this saga. I'm so glad I don't work for TV news, because there's no way they can sum it up in 30 seconds for viewers. The result is that they don't cover something that's racked up $23 million in city fees alone -- without removing any contamination from the ground, 15 years after it was first discovered.
Posted by Layla at 9:21 AM, January 14, 2004
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