The New Hampshire Supreme Court this week sided with the Union Leader, which had sued to gain access to the names of the top 500 pension recipients in the New Hampshire Retirement System.

Grant Bosse and Paul Westcott discuss the Josiah Bartlet Center’s First Annual Libertas Dinner honoring Governor John Sununu, and the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s decision opening up the New Hampshire Retirement System to public disclosure.

On this week’s exciting installment of New Hampshire Watchdog on WGIR, Grant Bosse joins host Paul Westcott to discuss yesterday’s New Hampshire Supreme Court decision opening up pension records to public disclosure. Listen to the NH Insider every Friday at 7:40am on AM610 WGIR and 96.7 The Wave, or listen online at WGIRam.com.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has unanimously affirmed a lower court decision clarifying that New Hampshire’s Right To Know Law compels the New Hampshire Retirement System to disclose the names of those receiving state pensions. Kathyrin Marchocki reports on the ruling in the Union Leader, which brought the suit.

Foster’s Daily Democrat uses its editorial page to push for greater disclosure in a strange and tragic case where the records are sealed.

Foster’s Daily Democrat editorializes on two proposed changes in New Hampshire’s Right To Know Law.

The Portsmouth Herald’s Patrick Cronin reports on the New Hampshire Supreme Court affirming that the state’s Right To Know Law empowers New Hampshire citizens to know how their government spends its money, including how much they pay its lawyers.

The Union Leader urges the Legislature to uphold Governor John Lynch’s veto of HB 53, which narrows the Right To Know Law for municipal workers.

The Union Leader editorializes about its ongoing Right To Know Lawsuit against the stubbornly private New Hampshire Retirement System.

The New Hampshire Retirement System continues to hold itself exempt from the Right To Know Law, despite a court order to the contrary.