Opinions for week ending: Sunday, March 30 2008

(3.26.08) Loose probation system
RALEIGH — The kind of supervision and protection required by a probation system is not being provided consistently across the state, largely because the General Assembly has failed to give the Department of Correction and the courts the resources.

(3.25.08) Cost of openness
RALEIGH — North Carolina law says that public bodies -- your city council or school board or airport authority or publicly owned hospital -- can be sued if they refuse to release documents they generate or receive. But if the plaintiff is in the right, who pays the bill?

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