Tue, Mar 2nd 2021 3:25am
Tim Cushing
It s pretty clearly established you have the right to record public servants as they perform their public duties. There are a few exceptions, but for the most part, if you re not interfering with their work, record away. Public servants hate this, of course, but there s not much they can do about it. Sure, they can try to use local laws to shut down recordings, but those efforts have routinely been rejected by federal courts.
Enter the TSA and some agents who felt they shouldn t be recorded doing their work. The TSA may believe it s doing valuable national security work that can t be recorded by third parties, but it s actually doing nothing of the sort. There s nothing inherently secret about a pat down in the screening area, which is something that happens all the time and often can be observed by everyone else in the area.
Classic adventure stories inspire new Definitely Dominguita series
Mary Quattlebaum, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Terry Catasús Jennings is the author of the new Definitely Dominguita series, which stars a girl who yearns to be a hero. The books are based on classics such as Treasure Island, which Jennings read as a child in Cuba.Photos from Lou Jennings, book covers from Simon & Schuster, family photo of Terry C. Jennings as a child/Collage by The Washington Post
Dominguita Melendez is determined to be a knight in Knight of the Cape, the first book in the new chapter book series Definitely Dominguita by Terry Catasús Jennings. She yearns to perform brave deeds like the heroes she reads about in books.
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No one in the Philippines would air a documentary about press freedom, so Frontline is doing it itself
Elahe Izadi, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Maria Ressa in the Frontline documentary A Thousand Cuts. Frontline/PBS
On the evening before Valentine s Day in 2019, journalist Maria Ressa was arrested by the Philippine government and charged with cyber-libel. At issue was a seven-year-old article that her news website, Rappler, had published before such a crime as cyber-libel existed in the country s legal code.
Ressa is now appealing a six-year prison sentence over the article, which concerned a businessman s alleged ties to a top judge and illegal drugs. Her arrest and the legal campaign against her and Rappler is captured in A Thousand Cuts, a chilling new documentary from Frontline that looks behind the scenes at the repression of journalism and growing disinformation under Philippine President Rodri
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Thousands of people across the state found themselves struggling to get COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
The FDA gave Johnson & Johnson s Covid-19 vaccine the green light for emergency use on Saturday. This July 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine in Belgium. Johnson & Johnson/AP
People who spoke with Channel 3 compared the process to buying concert tickets. Except the process has become somewhat of an opening day routine.
When a new segment of the population can schedule appointments, the rush of people cripples the state s scheduling systems. Monday was no different.
Hope remains, however.
Fans are shut out of Nationals Park, but that could change
Jesse Dougherty, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Fans have attended games at spring training this year.Washington Post photo by Toni L. Sandys
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The District of Columbia has denied for now the Washington Nationals request to host fans at a limited capacity in Nationals Park when the season begins in April, doing so in a letter Tuesday while promising to revisit the question in about two weeks. That means the final answer on in-person attendance is pending.
The team submitted a proposal Feb. 12 to have fans at Nationals Park starting next month. The proposal was in line with what other MLB teams have had approved by local or state officials, according to a person with knowledge of the process who was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The proposal, that person said, asks to have the maximum number of fans who could sit in small pods that would be spaced six feet apar