The e-mails have flooded in since last Sunday, when we launched an online database project that included nearly 20,000 names and salaries of local government workers.
The barrage included words like “shameful” and “appalling” and “outrageous” and “horrible,” as well as threats of legal action.
You’d have thought we ran another picture of a bedbug on the front page.
PDF: Erlanger, A Message from the PresidentPDF: Managers Key Talking Points – Times Free Press Open Records Request
The e-mails had a common denominator: They all were from Erlanger Health System employees. That’s not surprising since Erlanger management, intent on fomenting employee angst, notified their workers in advance, according to an Erlanger memo obtained by the Times Free Press.