Speaker of the Legislature offers plan to maintain valuable access for inspector generals

A wise, old soul once told me that "the story of government isn't that what is said isn't so, it's that what is so isn't said."

That, over and over, has proven true in years of digging into stories and actions of state government.

State agencies and constitutional officers have a bevy of public information officers whose job is to promote what that agency or office does, and overall, make that agency look good. ("Put lipstick on the pig" is another old saying.)

All too often, when you peel away the layers of the bureaucratic onion, you find out that what's being said isn't completely the case....