Transparency successes

A recent editorial in The Sanford Herald urged local officials to shine sunlight on a Lee County High School renovation project slated to be funded with proceeds from a new sales tax increase. That editorial based many of its arguments on information provided by John Locke Foundation Education Policy Analyst Terry Stoops. Speaking of transparency, the Manteo Coastland Times recently reported on Currituck County officials’ pride in boosting their transparency grade at the NCTransparency.com Web site. ([County Commission Board] Chairman [Owen] Etheridge commended public information officer Randall Edwards for having the county’s transparency grade re-examined and raised by the Locke Foundation, putting Currituck among the top 22 highest scored counties in the state (only two were higher).)