**UPDATED Nov. 28 with November precipitation totals; see below.**
Good that the Wall came down, and cool that we can read some of the original documents from that time shedding light on what happened:
York County congressman Todd Platts wants to be top dog at the Government Accountability Office (story here), which may be one of those agencies you haven't heard much about. But it actually does some pretty interesting stuff. It's known as the investigative arm of [...] 
The list of White House visitors is now online and searchable. (Thanks to the FOI Advocate blog for flagging that.)
I absolutely loved an anecdote from atop Sean Adkins' story in today's paper. Here it is:
In case you were curious, we checked on outgoing District Attorney Stan Rebert's campaign money. (To give credit where it's due, this was actually managing editor Randy Parker's idea -- just to see how or if Rebert would spend whatever money he had left after losing [...] 
Bands like Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails (that's Trent Reznor at right) aren't happy their music may have been used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and they've filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get the song titles. Thanks to the 
If you haven't noticed yet, Google maps now has "street view" available on major roads in York County.
This feature is pretty neat. And it means the Google car was in York some time recently. I wish I could have seen it.
I don't mean to make fun of the state's conservation department, because earthquakes -- even small ones -- aren't too terribly funny. But I thought it was interesting, and illustrative, that when the DCNR made public a Columbia University report on Dillsburg earthquakes, it did so with a [...]
The federal search warrant in the local human trafficking and slavery case is online at Full Disclosure's Reading Room. (Also, here's a link to reporter Ted Czech's story about who's fighting human trafficking and what they're doing.) 
The York Daily Record/Sunday News' public records reporting efforts -- including our Full Disclosure web site and this blog -- won the 2009 Public Service Award from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, which was announced today.
A Lebanon County woman who drew national attention last year for carrying a loaded handgun to her child's soccer game was shot dead Wednesday in what police are calling a murder suicide. 
Quick update: The York Daily Record/Sunday News' effort to get 911 time-response logs from York County is headed to court Oct. 21.An independent nuclear experts has recommended that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approve Three Mile Island's bid to run for an additional 20 years.
Since no one has contested TMI's application for license renewal, the NRC will not hold a hearing and instead expects to issue a decision by early [...]
In his testimony today, a Luzerne County judge told a county commission that a kids-for-cash scheme (where two county judges allegedly sent kids to a jail in return for kickbacks) was able to go on for so long because the media does not report [...] 
Westboro Baptist Church's free speech victory today is hardly the only controversial free-speech decision by a federal court or the U.S. Supreme Court. In fact, the fourth circuit appeals court's decision today noted that sometimes, defending free speech means being on the side of some [...] 
We had a reader ask where he could find municipal meeting listings. 
The agency that audits federal defense contracts isn't doing a good enough job, according to another federal agency that reviewed its work. That resonates in York County because of the county's military contractors, including Gichner Shelter Systems of Dallastown, BAE
Systems in West Manchester Township and [...] When Todd Platts, York County's congressman, denied 
Is there such a thing as too much information before you eat?York Daily Record/Sunday News staffer Sean Adkins reports that on Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, an independent body of experts that advises the NRC [...]
York Township and its commissioners have lots of reasons why you shouldn't be able to see their e-mails, even though public officials' e-mails are open records under the state's right-to-know law, according to the state's Office of Open Records. Here's a list, drawn [...]
Whether you have some documents you'd like us [...]
... because you might be able to get those docs for free. Some people at Princeton University have unveiled a Firefox extension that aims to create a public repository of free federal/bankruptcy court records.* It's called RECAP -- which is PACER spelled backwards. PACER [...] 
A
cluster of murders in York County over the weekend prompted me to look
more closely at where homicides are occurring in the county. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court now says it wants to preserve the records of thousands of juveniles who appeared before an allegedly corrupt judge between 2003 and 2008.
The high court had wanted to [...]
This isn't your traditional public-records/original document post, but it does give you a peek inside the workings of the the Pennsylvania state Senate.
State police in Gettysburg said today that a registered sex offender wasn't living at the 
