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Honor Bestowed for Transparency in Providing Information Exposing Fraud in State's HOPE Program
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 11:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Battlefield wedding ceremonies; a Ukrainian farmer stealing a Russian tank with his tractor and posting it on eBay; Ukrainian mothers and children fleeing to find a line of donated strollers from Polish mothers.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 10:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During Sunshine Week — seven days highlighting the public’s right to know about what happens behind the government’s closed doors — much of North Carolina’s health care system remains in the shade.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If a Florida parent wants to see the personnel file for their child’s public school teacher, the school would hand it over.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 10:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Four Carolina Journal staff members in February sent public records requests to all 100 county governments in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This week is National Sunshine Week, celebrated to encourage governmental transparency on every level.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Reporters, government accountability activists, and residents often grapple with government institutions, which can be slow to respond to and or even hostile toward any attempt to shine light on their operations.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 @ 2:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When describing access to public records, "slow" is the first word that comes to mind, Ken Eudy, a senior adviser to Gov. Roy Cooper said Monday, March 11, during a talk on government transparency at Elon University.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2019 @ 10:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week was Sunshine Week, not that we saw a lot of it, either meteorologically or metaphorically. What we got for the start of the week was dark clouds, some wind and even snow. Some might say it was symbolic of a week designated to shine the light on the need for open government
Published: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 @ 10:41 am
By: Tom Campbell
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House Minority Leader Darren Jackson, D-Wake, says Gov. Roy Cooper was within his constitutional authority to create a $57.8 million side deal to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2018 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like all public officials celebrate transparency, until it applies to them
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 4:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments for April 6 in a high-profile case pitting the public's access to official records against government attempts to suppress information from public view.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2015 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newspapers, activists and all who care about open government recently celebrated "Sunshine Week." Now it's time for North Carolina conservatives to make 2014 Sunshine Year.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The political debate in North Carolina has me seeing double. A double standard, that is. On Tuesday, longtime Duke University health care scholar Chris Conover testified before the General Assembly's new Joint Study Committee on the Affordable Care Act and Implementation Issues. Conover's...
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Sunshine Week meeting to discuss a proposed new law making a violation of the state's open government laws found some senators not too keen on the idea.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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