Bill Girdner

First Amendment rulings are sweeping past restrictions put up by local court officials, with the latest decision coming out of federal court in Pittsburgh.

States have one by one been reopening their courts to public access in the digital age. A remaining few have fought the trend but keep losing First Amendment battles, most recently in Pittsburgh.

Baja was a magical place when I was growing up, where great ships had foundered, and blocks of onyx and whale skeletons emerged from the sand, and the creatures of land and sea ruled.