Lockwood Phillips is the owner, editor, and publisher of Carteret Publishing Co., which publishes the Carteret County News-Times and Tideland News.
Opinion
Proposed bill would make public notices less visible to citizens, not more
Like similar efforts in the past, a bill in this year’s legislature attempts to move the task of notifying the public of important government actions from privately owned newspapers to a government website. In a recent op-ed, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Michael Lazzara, leans into recycled myths and half-truths about the newspaper industry while pleading...