NC Open Government

From The Mount Airy News (10/08/08): Mount Airy officials met behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss an undisclosed “real estate matter.”

From The Daily Tar Heel Online (10/08/08): The Board of Elections, the body responsible for ensuring the legality of campuswide elections, is breaking N.C. law.

The Sunshine Center of the N.C. Open Government Coalition will celebrate National Freedom of Speech Week by hosting an interactive workshop in Dare County on Oct. 21.

From BlueRidgeNow.com (10/8/08): The candidates for the state House are Republican and Democrat, three challengers and an incumbent, with different life experiences.

From the Wilmington Star-News (10/1/08): The board that oversees liquor sales in New Hanover County needs to be shaken, not stirred, out of its complacency.

Dale Harrison, an adjunct associate professor and assistant director of the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition, was quoted in a Fayetteville Observer editorial on Sept. 25 in which the newspaper explained how local politicians were "skirting the letter of the state’s Open Meeting Law, but most certainly violating its spirit."