About Vivian Transparency

Our town. A clearer public record.

Vivian Transparency is owned by iTsMedia LLC. It exists to make local decisions easier to understand and the supporting information easier to find.

This is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with the Town of Vivian, the United States Postal Service, or any government agency.

How to follow an issue

• Case files bring an overview, a sourced timeline, documents, related stories, and open questions together.
• Stories provide reporting and clearly labeled commentary, with links to the evidence behind them.
• Records explain the requests, responses, correspondence, and other documents cited in our reporting, with copies readers can inspect.

Evidence, attribution, and follow-up

A statement in a document is attributed to its source. We distinguish documented information, attributed statements, and commentary, and identify questions that remain unanswered.

Published reporting is preserved. Corrections and small additions appear as dated notes; substantial developments receive new stories linked through the same case file. Our Contact and corrections page explains how to raise a concern about a published item.

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Our reporting

• Thomas B. Fitzgerald — Thomas B. Fitzgerald reports on local decisions and public records for Vivian Transparency. His reporting includes the removal of the magnolia beside the Vivian Post Office and the records surrounding that decision.