Legal Padding
July 15, 2005
Local governments are obligated to inform the citizenry about new speed bumps, traffic lights, and the recycling schedule via public notices published in the local paper. In a few states, legislators have suggested that the Internet might be the logical place for public notices in the 21st century. But local papers are fighting that threat to what has been a guaranteed gravy train for them. Brooke talks with Sasha Issenberg, author of a brief history of the public notice in Legal Affairs Magazine.
