Archive for March 27, 2009

Elon law professor Andrew Haile writes in a March 27 guest column for The Triad Business Journal that "our government should pursue important goals such as preserving the environment and reducing dependence on foreign oil to improve national security" but that a cap-and-trade system is not the best path to achieve those goals.

The N.C. Open Government Coalition has responded to recent inquiries as to whether elected state officials correspondence with their constituencies are public.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (3/27/09): Members of the state legislature can't exempt themselves from the state's public records law, according to a Raleigh lawyer who also heads a coalition of groups advocating open government.