UPDATED - WED JUNE 25, 2008 -- AN UPDATE REGARDING MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN THIS POST AND REGARDING NRRI AND ITS PUBLIC DATA ACT COMPLIANCE.
My post, "Upriver into The Heart of Darkness. Trying to track down the Tinklenberg Group's taconite tailings marketing and logistics contract with NRRI," so far is an ongoing saga. I will update things at that post, end of things ever lengthening, rather than new-post-by-new-post. Other taconite related things would be posted differently. Getting the facts from NRRI will keep its own onging thread. The link above will always get back to that post and its updates.
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Hopefully there will not be a stonewall.
That would hurt, not help Elwyn Tinklenberg. I expect his hope is that I have fair and full aid and discovery of public data from NRRI as quickly and troublefree as feasible.
Anything less would look like a coverup. And that kind of thing can be orchestrated from a number of focal points. It can be viewed as attributable to a range of people or factors. Suspicions can grow from stonewalling when the law clearly is a sunshine law. The legislative intent is not at all confused or equivocal. Give disclosure. Be reasonable about it. Be prompt. Be thorough. Don't play games.
I made a few Tinklenberg-related requests of City of Ramsey. City staff was courteous and generally responsive.
This NRRI is a new experience, but based on Ramsey I anticipate the best of outcomes.
Yet, my mother had a saying, "That's about as hard as pulling hen's teeth."
Let's hope that NRRI disclosure, our state University system responding to a public data request, acts as responsibly as I anticipate, as Ramsey did. Without having to try pulling hen's teeth.