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Bill Girdner
Editor of Courthouse News Service.
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Birthday stories
In coming days, the nation will throw a grand party. Underneath the fireworks will be the stories of Americans living through times that disturb the dream of liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
La Bella Macchina
The print shop smelled of ink and housed a 60-foot Koenig & Bauer press. I was in the place I had long wanted to be.
Graduation Day
A battalion of graduates from a Southern California high school show the power and promise of immigration in America.
News outlets show Virginia court rule likely prior restraint on speech
A prohibition against lawyers sending public records to journalists may well fall as a First Amendment violation based on the initial showing by news reporters.
Comstock Lode
In a region rich with the history of the West, we travel between courthouses. In a town where a Canadian made the first big discovery of silver ore in North America, and where miners all carried guns, Mark Twain started his writing career, writing for a local newspaper about courts and inquests.
Ghost town
In a big stretch of the Nevada desert that boomed then busted a long time ago, some towns are turning into ghost towns and some already have, as the desert reclaims its land.
On the road
A quest for access takes a Courthouse News crew through a desert land of casinos, motels and ghost towns.
