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Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM

We deserve transparency, not “no comment”

ALL THINGS NEBRASKA | PAUL HAMMEL

There’s an old saying about government: “It’s not that ‘what is said isn’t so,’ it’s ‘what is so isn’t said.’” So that means that someone—maybe a state auditor, maybe a whistleblower, but often a news reporter—needs to dig in and find out what is really happening with our tax dollars and state policies.

That’s why it was so disgusting to read recently about our “Secretary of War’s” crackdown on access by reporters to the Pentagon.

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