Our View: Newspapers provide a record

When our society finds a better way to archive public records for the people, it will have the full support of this newspaper.

Public notices (legals) are the surest way to let the citizens know how their tax dollars are being spent.

They also create a permanent and secure record of the business of your government and they have run in these pages since this newspaper began.

That won’t always be the case.

Publishing on-line has been a boon to getting news into the hands of more people, and in getting government information to its citizens.

But on-line dissemination of information is tragically...