TCOG board

18 Feb, 2016

TCOG Board elects Memphis attorney Lucian Pera as new president, names executive committee

By |2016-02-18T07:12:48-06:00February 18, 2016|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Memphis attorney Lucian Pera has been named as the new President of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to improve citizen access to public information and open government in the state. Lucian Pera Pera, a partner with the Memphis office of Adams and Reese LLP, has served as a member of TCOG’s Board of Directors since 2007 and as its vice president since 2010. Adam Yeomans, the Associated Press Regional Director for the South, was elected as vice president. The board also re-elected to new terms on the executive committee Marian Ott as treasurer and Dorothy Bowles as secretary. Pera succeeds Doug [...]

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19 Jan, 2016

TCOG adds 5 new members to its Board of Directors

By |2016-01-19T10:46:47-06:00January 19, 2016|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit organization that promotes government transparency, has named five new members to its Board of Directors. They are: Victor Ashe, former Knoxville mayor, state representative, state senator and U.S. Ambassador to Poland Braden Boucek, litigation director and representative for The Beacon Center of Tennessee Hedy Weinberg, executive director of ACLU-TN John Williams, attorney with Tune, Entrekin & White, P.C. Larry Wood, general manager of WNWS-FM, NewsTalk 101.5 FM in Jackson TCOG is a non-partisan organization founded in 2003 whose mission rests on the belief that citizen access to government information, through public records and public meetings, is crucial in allowing informed [...]

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25 Feb, 2015

Kent Flanagan, former TCOG leader, dies

By |2015-02-26T04:53:21-06:00February 25, 2015|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: |0 Comments

By MICHELLE WILLIAMS, Associated Press Kent Flanagan NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kent Flanagan, a longtime journalist and open government advocate who spent 21 years as Tennessee's bureau chief for The Associated Press, died Wednesday. He was 69. Flanagan's wife, Janet, said he died at home after a long illness. He had been talking and joking with his brother just before he died, she said. The couple recently marked their 42nd wedding anniversary, she said. The two met while Flanagan was stationed in Germany with the Army as a public information officer. After a stint in Vietnam, Flanagan completed his four years of military service, and the couple married [...]

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20 Jan, 2015

TCOG elects WPLN news director Anita Bugg to its Board of Directors

By |2015-01-20T10:40:43-06:00January 20, 2015|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government recently elected Anita Bugg to its Board of Directors. Anita Bugg, News Director for WPLN, Nashville Public Radio Bugg is news director of Nashville's public radio station WPLN where she has worked since 1995 in roles that have also included Morning Edition host and assignment editor. Bugg fills the board seat representing Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors. She is a member of Society of Professional Journalists and Public Radio News Directors, Inc. She graduated with a bachelor's of arts in journalism from Murray State University, where she worked for commercial stations and discovered her first public radio "home" with WKMS. TCOG is a non-partisan, non-profit [...]

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8 Jan, 2015

TCOG elects Chattanooga citizen Helen Burns Sharp to its Board of Directors

By |2015-01-08T09:11:54-06:00January 8, 2015|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Tennessee Coalition for Open Government recently elected to its Board of Directors Helen Burns Sharp, a public interest advocate in Chattanooga who has advanced awareness of the Tennessee Open Meetings Act and the rights of citizens to transparency in government. TCOG's Board of Directors recently elected Helen Burns Sharp to a seat on its board. Sharp is a community development consultant and a retired urban planning director who has been involved in two public interest lawsuits against the Chattanooga Industrial Development Board over violations of the state’s sunshine laws. She holds a master’s degree in government from the University of Texas, and a political science degree from [...]

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