• Virginia’s Trump Winery inspections are a $38 empty glass

    Virginia’s Trump Winery inspections are a $38 empty glass

    MuckRock’s resident Virginian spent the cost of decent meal on inspection reports of the Trump Winery in Charlottesville - and got a costly reminder that just because records are hard to get doesn’t necessarily mean they’re worth getting.

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  • Ronald Reagan's Irish spy joke

    Ronald Reagan’s Irish spy joke

    When Ronald Reagan signed the controversial Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 into law, he did so with panache, holding the ceremony at CIA HQ. Before an assembled crowd of friendly members of the Intelligence Community, Reagan felt comfortable enough to start with what he called “an ethnic joke:” the one about Murphy the spy.

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