Sunday’s Raleigh News & Observer featured Richard Wagner commenting on open government. The piece noted that JLF “isn’t shy” about pursuing public records and mentioned CJ’s work surrounding state spending and the activities of former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance. “With an informed public, democracy will thrive. An ignorant electorate will become enslaved to the government,” Wagner said. CJ and the NC Press Association have filed a lawsuit intended to give the public more timely and complete access to details of economic development incentives doled out by the state. That effort was referenced in a February editorial in the Carteret County News-Times and in a story published Sunday in the Durham Herald-Sun.
