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...Soon after news of Summers’ remarks first broke in a front-page Boston Globe article on Jan. 17, 2005, staffers in the president’s office quietly secured both tapes, according to three people familiar with the events in Mass. Hall last year. The recordings were not to be played to anyone, save for a select group of the president’s senior staff and an assistant assigned to secretly prepare a transcript...
...deserves to be in every library and on every bookshelf. Your Persons of the Year issue is one such example and should be recommended to all as essential reading for years to come. Ian Harris Sturminster Newton, England After a year in which disasters struck different parts of the globe, Time has rightly picked the icons of a generation who, after achieving success in their respective fields, have ventured to make the world a better place. The Gateses and Bono have taken the road less traveled but have done so with such passion, zeal and influence that they are sure...
...primary purpose of G.L. c. 66, § 10, is to give the public broad access to government documents. See Cape Cod Times v. Sheriff of Barnstable County, 443 Mass. 587, 592 (2005); General Elec. Co. v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 802 (1999); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Bd., 388 Mass. 427, 436 (1983). To that end, disclosure is favored by a "presumption that the record sought is public." G.L. c. 66, § 10 (c ). See Bougas v. Chief of Police of Lexington, 371 Mass. 59, 61 (1976) (documents presumed to be public records when possessed...
...Judicial Nominating Council, 425 Mass. 406, 409 (1997) (records of judicial nominating council not "public records" subject to disclosure where Governor is not "agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority" of the Commonwealth within explicit meaning of G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. Retirement Bd., 416 Mass. 1007, 1007 (1993) (records of retirement board not subject to public disclosure under G.L. c. 66, § 10, where such entity not "board" of Commonwealth under G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth); Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. v. Sergeant-at-Arms...
...delegated authority to implement the provisions of G.L. c. 66 to the supervisor of public records (supervisor), who has enacted comprehensive regulations regarding the scope and application of the public records law. See G.L. c. 66, § 1; 950 Code Mass. Regs. §§ 32.00 (2003). See also Globe Newspaper Co. v. Beacon Hill Architectural Comm'n, 421 Mass. 570, 583 (1996), and cases cited ("An administrative agency has jurisdiction to establish regulations that bear a rational relation to the statutory purpose"). Such regulations are to "be construed to ensure the public prompt access to all public records...