Public Notice Law Needs Modernization, but Newspaper Bill Would Hurt Taxpayers

Bill would put legals online, not in print

BATON ROUGE – The House of Representatives voted 74-17 to pass a bill that would shift the state’s official public notices from The Advocate newspaper to a government-run website.

Public notice law needs modernization, but newspaper bill would hurt taxpayers - MoreThanTheCurve

Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association-backed HB 1291 would hurt taxpayers by bringing the print newspaper monopoly of public notices into the digital age.Just ask yourself… Where in the past decade have you learned about zoning hearings and other important notices? MoreThanTheCurve.com has been doing it for free to keep you informed, while the paid versions, no one ever sees, are in the back of a newspaper. In an age before the internet, it made se…

EDITORIAL: Proposed public notice modernization is step in wrong direction for local taxpayers - The Shenandoah Sentinel

Legacy print newspapers receive thousands in taxpayer funds each year while covering less and less news. The funds come through required legal notices which, according to Pennsylvania law, can only be published in print newspapers "of general circulation." All while these same papers cover less and less of your communities. Now, state lawmakers and lobbyists

OUR VIEW: Public Notice Law Needs Updating; Newspaper Bill Would Hurt Taxpayers

A bill would hurt taxpayers by bringing print newspaper monopoly of public notices into digital age. The post OUR VIEW: Public Notice Law Needs Updating; Newspaper Bill Would Hurt Taxpayers appeared first on NewtownPANow.com.

Public Notice Law Needs Modernization, but Newspaper Bill Would Hurt Taxpayers

In an age before the internet, it made sense that agencies and other parties were required to post public notice of meetings and significant actions in the local print newspaper. This worked for many decades while competition in the print newspaper market remained strong, but today with a greatly diminished printed press, public notices are best known by municipal leaders, lawyers and residents for price gouging and pitiful customer service. Now…

Public notice law needs modernization, but newspaper bill would hurt taxpayers

LebTown publisher challenges proposed state legislation that would restrict public notice publishing rights to newspapers with historical print editions, despite digital outlets' broader reach and lower costs.