It?s unfortunate that WNCN decided to follow the News & Observer?s lead by singling out Apex for negative attention in connection with the John Locke Foundation?s new grades of online transparency for state and local government agencies.
Read more than just the ?Triangle Politics? brief from Saturday?s paper, and you?ll see that the new Web site NCTransparency.com assigns pretty low scores to many groups.
No state agency earns better than a C grade. Most get Ds, as did Apex. That grade is not uncommon among city governments. Fayetteville, Garner, and Sanford all earned Ds among local governments within the Triangle/Sandhills television market. (Those are just the ones from the site?s first two pages.)
More important than the current grade is the fact that a government agency?s grade will improve as officials place more useful information online. We would be happy to see those grades get better and better as more government leaders see the importance of online transparency.
Joe Coletti explained why transparency benefits all taxpayers ? not just those in Apex ? during his interview with WNCN.
