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Open Government

“Without newspapers at the helm to instigate, coordinate, and finance legal change, much, if not most, of the nation’s important constitutional and statutory open-government law of the last generation simply would not have come to pass.” 

—RonNell Andersen Jones, law professor and former newspaper editor, “Campbell: Legislators can’t blame open-records woes on media,” The Salt Lake Tribune, March 2011.

• Editorial Comment: That was then. . .


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