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Saving Local News Could Also Save Taxpayers Money
Zak Podmore did not bring down a corrupt mayor. He did not discover secret torture sites or expose abuses by a powerful religious institution. But there was something about this one article he wrote as a reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune in 2019 that changed my conception of the value of local news.
Podmore, then a staff journalist for the Tribune and a corps member of Report for America, a nonprofit I co-founded, published a story revealing that
Boris Johnson urged to pay back taxpayers for his Partygate legal fees | Politics | News
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urged by the majority of Express.co.uk readers to pay the taxpayer back for his Partygate legal fees, a new poll has shown.
Figures published by the Cabinet Office last week showed Mr Johnson’s legal representation in the Privileges Committee Parytgate probe cost a total of £265,522.
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner called out Mr Johnson for using taxpayer funds to cover the cost.
She said: “At the height of a