Gallatin News Examiner public service entry

The Gallatin News Examiner in 2013 published a multitude of articles and editorials unearthing otherwise unreported corruption in government for the betterment of the community. Among them: a city mayor who tried to use taxpayer money for his wife's vacation expenses; an airport board that refused to step down even after new members were appointed by the governing body; an exhaustive fight over school safety, including how to implement it and whether the public should be part of the process; a city codes and planning director who used an uncertified inspector to check if homes were up to state standards; a city judge who fixed her daughter's traffic ticket and then instructed an employee to hide the evidence; and a little-known tax that several cities had not been paying to the school system. Through these stories and others, the News Examiner promoted the welfare of the county in which we serve our readers. Here are the entries in the attached 50 tearsheets in chronological order: 1. Local man's find could alter science (Jan. 2) 2. County talks safety secrecy (Feb. 8) 3. Taxpayers buy D.C. meals for mayor's wife (Feb. 10) 4. Secret safety talks pose public danger (Feb. 13) 5. Gallatin '78 school shooting recalled (Feb. 15) 6. Safety meetings subject to sunshine for now (Feb. 22) 7. Airport power struggle reignites (March 1) 8. City missing 'weeks' of emails (March 6) 9. City probes home inspections (March 10) 10. Planning director placed on leave (March 15) 11. Audio captures Allers using profanity to refer to mayor (March 15) 12. County threatens to 'implode' airport board (March 22) 13. School fees pay for basics (April 28) 14. After three years, flood lingers (May 5) 15. Voting precincts cut by 25 percent (May 19) 16. New standards raise questions (May 29) 17. Hunter's court usually a packed house, but without the applause (June 12) 18. City revises expense policy (June 16) 19. New board takes control of airport, legal fight continues (June 28) 20. Hyde: Precinct change notices were 'misleading' (July 12) 21. Mother says murdered son tried to change (July 17) 22. Economy downs developer (July 28) 23. Officers mourn death of 'brother' 24. Family forced from home after city deems it unsafe (Aug. 9) 25. Town Creek diesel spill cleanup could take 3 weeks (Aug. 11) 26. More students say they drink before 21 (Aug. 16) 27. Few buildings protected on square (Aug. 28) 28. New airport board takes control (Aug. 30) 29. Cities question tax figures (Sept. 18) 30. Mother struggles to heal after son's April murder (Sept. 20) 31. Schools stop religious trips (Sept. 22) 32. Judge rules no abuse in civil suit against schools (Sept. 25) 33. Uninsured in Sumner estimated at 21,000 (Sept. 25) 34. Collapsed wall had little bracing (Sept. 29) 35. Cities weigh plans to pay debt to schools (Oct. 6) 36. Complaint targets city judge (Oct. 6) 37. Jail furloughs a 'necessary evil' (Oct. 9)