By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has sided with citizens' groups against a Montgomery County project to transform a 20-acre organic farm in a Potomac neighborhood into soccer fields, but county officials say they plan to go forward with the project anyway.
A Montgomery County judge on Tuesday upheld a public information request from a coalition of well-funded citizen groups who had been stonewalled in their efforts to uncover details about a county project to transform a 20-acre farm in an affluent neighborhood of Potomac into soccer fields.
