The Jamestown News makes a front page appeal to Gov. Roy Cooper to veto state Sen. Trudy Wade’s bill to let Guilford County and its municipal governments publish legal notices on its websites instead of paying to publish them in general circulation newspapers:
The loss of revenue from legals is certainly an issue acknowledged by anyone in the business, but the loss cannot be measured in dollars alone. The real loss comes in the loss of coverage, jobs and transparency this action will cause – including the closure of The Jamestown News. Publisher Charles Womack said, “It is the community that ultimately and initially loses. We will close if this legislation is effective and not vetoed by the Governor. Jamestown residents will lose their hometown paper.”
Guilford Rep. Amos Quick said the bill was “a target program. The target is the News & Record newspaper of my hometown, Greensboro.” In response, N&R columnist Susan Ladd lashed out, not over Wade’s newspaper bill but over her so-called “garbage juice” bill, calling Wade the “Queen of Refuse.”
