COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL AUGUST 17, 2016
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
PUBLIC NOTICES
If public notices
aren’t in the
newspaper,
how will the public notice?
Zoning changes. Tax increases. Legislative proposals. These are just a few ways
government actions can affect your life and community.
80% of all Oregon adults read a newspaper at least once during an average
week, and 54% read public notices printed there.*
But federal, state, and local government agencies erroneously believe they
can save money by putting public notices on their web sites instead. If that hap-
pens, how will public notices be ... well, noticed? Less than 10% of the U.S. popu-
lation currently visits a government web site daily.**
You should not have to know where, when, and how to look, or what to look
for, in order to be informed. It is the government’s responsibility to deliver notice
to the public.
Take notice.
Your right to know is being served right here: in your newspaper.
* American Opinion Research, Princeton NJ, September 2010. ** U.S. Census Bureau, May 2009.
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