Letter to the Editor: Legislative effort underway to remove certain public notices from newspapers

There’s an effort underway by North Dakota counties and cities to no longer publish a register of taxpayer bills in their official local newspapers.

Instead, they want to put them on their government websites, provided the county or city has a website.

It’s meant as a cost-savings measure, they argue. Statewide lobbying groups for counties and cities support a bill debated last week in the House P...