Our view: Legal notices belong in newspapers

It’s a battle that’s been waged for a long time now and it doesn’t show any signs of letting up.

There’s a movement amongst state legislators to have the legal notices published by municipal and county governments in their local newspapers instead published solely on their governmental websites.

At a time when the state and its city and county governments have been hit hard by a sluggish minerals industry and the impacts of a pandemic, it makes sense to cut costs wherever they can be cut -- at least that’s the surface argument.

There’s something else to address as well: the fact that newspaper...