Government officials won't need private non-profit board of directors to meet in private. If no one is paying attention or covering the meetings They can destroy our state in public.

Let them eat cake!

...I'm cancelling my subscription early.

won't have any reporters in it, apparently.

Via a Hellbender Press founder who put the ACT to bed every Saturday night only to get laid off after several years... Like everyone else save the computers and ad staff... Their whole photag dept is toast.

Asheville Citizen-Times newsroom loses 7 employees in reorganization

The Asheville Citizen-Times news department has seven fewer employees under a reorganization that went into affect, according to my unconfirmed count. The newspapers corporate parent, Gannett, is testing what it calls the “newsroom of the future” concept in five of its newspapers across the country, including the Citizen-Times. Today’s layoffs come almost a year to the day that eight staffers were laid off in 2013.

The reorganization aims to focus news-gathering operations on the online delivery of news through websites and social media sites first and foremost. Josh Awtry, editor of the Citizen-Times, has said the new plan will focus more resources on reporting and digital media.

In human terms, that means that most newsroom employees were essentially fired and forced to reapply for new jobs, many of which pay less than previous jobs. Here is the list of people that are affected, as I know it from my sources (and unconfirmed):...