State Senate Bill 343 is bad law, and residents here should fight it.
The bill proposes to keep legal notices out of some, if not all, newspapers, and that flies in the face of laws and …
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The Times-News
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6/29/17
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For decades North Carolina has ranked near the bottom of all states in the country when it comes to the public’s right to know what went wrong when a government employee is transferred, demoted …
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Sandy Hurley & Bill Moss
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3/7/22
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Nashville police Chief John Winstead and Nashville Human Resources Director Matt Joyner late last month were suspended indefinitely with pay, Town Manager Randy Lansing said Friday afternoon.
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William F. West Staff Writer
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10/10/23
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CONCORD — Some online services provided by the Cabarrus County Register of Deeds remain down following a cybersecurity event with the Greensboro-based records website vendor.
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10/30/23
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Mecklenburg County Chief District Court Judge Elizabeth Trosch approved a temporary return to paper processes late Sunday evening amid a mass outage of the new digital case …
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Naomi Kowles
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10/31/23
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More people are reading the Bladen Journal than ever before.
So when we learned over the weekend that state House Reps. Harry Warren of Rowan County and Jay Adams of Catawba County were …
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Bladen Journal
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1/28/21
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Rep. Harry Warren just doesn’t get it.
When he personally resumed Republican legislators’ crusade against local newspapers and the public’s right to know last week, Warren …
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Salisbury Post Editorial Board
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2/1/21
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The members of NCPA will convene in Raleigh March 20-22 at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley. (Site of the 2018 convention which held record crowds.) NCPA continues a tradition of offering free …
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1/11/19
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SALISBURY — Rep. Harry Warren, a Republican serving state House District 76, last week introduced a bill that would allow a slew of counties to publish public notices on their websites rather …
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Natalie Anderson
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2/4/21
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The North Carolina General Assembly is back in session, and we hope for significant headway on issues like vaccinations, economic recovery and help for public schools dealing with an …
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Sylva Herald
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2/3/21
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Like a bad penny, legislation to hide public notices from the public is back in N.C. General Assembly.
House members have filed separate bills that would allow 14 counties in the Piedmont and …
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Philip M. Lucey
NC Press Association
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2/4/21
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A bill has been filed in the N.C. General Assembly that would allow local governments in 14 counties, including Forsyth, to file their required legal notices on their websites, rather than in local …
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Richard Craver
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2/5/21
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Here's a collection of editorial cartoon and ads for newspapers to use to promote keeping public notices in newspapers
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2/9/17
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NC Guide to Open Government and Public Records
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9/19/17
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With Gov. Roy Cooper on record against the change, efforts to move legal and public notices out of newspapers are taking a different approach this year to skirt a potential veto. House Republicans …
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COLIN CAMPBELL, THE INSIDER
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2/9/21
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A month from today, The Pilot will print its annual listing of people who owe Moore County taxes.
The special section is usually 10 or 12 pages of name after name of people who owe …
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The Pilot
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2/11/21
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Are you OK with government officials limiting who can speak at public hearings or keeping you in the dark on things like tax increases or zoning changes or continued meetings?
House Bill 51 …
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Emily Weaver
Daily Record
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2/12/21
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Did you know that the local shop half a mile from the park where your kids like to play now sells alcohol? or that the prominent business in the community hasn't paid their property taxes in …
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Tia'Lavon Hill
The Dispatch
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2/15/21
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With all that is going on, both locally and nationally, that we have chronicled in this newspaper, local officials and our newest state representative have supported a bill that would undercut the …
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Daily Journal
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2/15/21
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For more than a decade, N.C. lawmakers have tried to pass legislation that would allow local governments to move legal and public notices out of newspapers. Those notices often contain vital …
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N&O Editorial Board
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2/16/21
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