Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the governor’s decision to close all N.C. schools for two weeks. Brooke Conrad reports on Sunshine Week and government attempts to hide…
Sunshine Week
week containing James Madison's birthday
Liberty
Records requests: How transparent are North Carolina’s counties?
Carolina Journal reports: Four Carolina Journal staff members in February sent public records requests to all 100 county governments in North Carolina. Counties were asked to provide the number of full-time…
Liberty
CJ reports: Eudy says governor will ‘try harder’ to comply with records requests
Carolina Journal‘s Kari Travis reports: When describing access to public records, “slow” is the first word that comes to mind, Ken Eudy, a senior adviser to Gov. Roy Cooper said…
Education
School boards have a transparency problem
In honor of Sunshine Week, WRAL outlines a few of the problems that journalists face when they try to obtain minutes from closed sessions of school board and State Board…
Liberty
More on Secret Sunshine
The Citizen-Times has a nice article on the secret land deal the Buncombe County Commissioners entered into to celebrate Sunshine Week. Unlike my paltry piece, this article was written by…
Liberty
Wake up Sunshine
A lengthy article in the Mountain Xpress tells of progress the already transparent City of Asheville has achieved in making public records even more accessible to The Wee People. The…
Elections & Public Integrity
Dispatches from the campaign trail, March 17, 2014
• It’s Sunshine Week, which highlights transparency (or the lack of it) at all levels of government. This Charlotte Observer report notes that — unlike candidates for president or U.S.…
Law & Public Safety
More open government bills files during Sunshine Week
As Sunshine Week approaches its conclusion, state Sen. Thom Goolsby has filed a couple more open government bills. One is a proposed constitutional amendment known as the “Sunshine Amendment.” It…
Law & Public Safety
A new app helps spread some sunshine
The N.C. Open Government Coalition has released a new mobile app, just in time for Sunshine Week. The app, called “NC Sunshine Center,” can be downloaded at the iTunes App…
Liberty
Expect wailing and gnashing of teeth
In honor of Sunshine Week, Sens. Debbie Clary, R-Cleveland, Tommy Tucker, R-Union, and Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover, have introduced Senate Bill 344, Government Transparency Act of 2011. The bill would…
Liberty
This is positively Orwellian
The only event not closed to the press at the White House today is one in which Barack Obama is being given an award for openness with the press: According…
Liberty
New Carolina Journal Online exclusive
The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features a Sunshine Week reminder that NCTransparency.com keeps tabs on N.C. state and local government agencies’ willingness to post important public information online.