NC Open Government

From the Greensboro News and Record (8/26/11): The University of North Carolina will welcome media attention when Tom Ross is inaugurated as system president Oct. 6.

From the Southern Pines Pilot (8/24/11): Sometimes it's no fun conducting the public's business while that pesky entity known as the public is breathing down your neck.

From the Wilmington StarNews (8/23/11): Last year, Durham encountered a disturbing problem that would eventually have statewide ramifications: Witnesses to major crimes were calling 911 just to hang up.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (8/19/11): In justifying recent private meetings of the new University of North Carolina system Board of Governors, the system's counsel conveniently rationalizes a closed-door meeting by saying ... it wasn't a meeting. No, system vice president Laura Luger said, a gathering of the board in Chapel Hill that was not open to the public was "outside the scope of an official meeting by all of its parameters."

From the Charlotte Observer (8/18/11): A gathering last week of the UNC Board of Governors was not open to the public, and notice of the event was not provided to the news media ahead of time - raising questions about whether the gathering violated the state's open meetings law.

From the Beaufort Observer (8/17/11): Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and a host of other political leaders learned the hard way: The coverup is often worse than the crime.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (8/14/11): Those 911 calls the public hears on TV and the Internet will begin to sound a little different.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (8/6/11): "Because of the unfairly speculative and one-sided coverage of UNC's recent football issues," wrote one UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, "I will not read your paper or visit your website again."

From the Greensboro News and Record (8/3/11): The American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina is joining in a coast-to-coast effort to determine how often local law enforcement agencies use cell phones to track people.

From the Warren Record (8/2/11): Once again, Lake Gaston resident June Gibbs is having trouble getting public records, and an attorney says the county is violating state laws that help ensure the government conducts the people's business out in the open.