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Show 1 NO TEETH IN PUBLICATION LAWS A determined effort will be made at this term of the legislature to have some teeth inserted in Utah's publication publica-tion laws. The public does not generally know that these laws are violated by many public officials and with impunity. impuni-ty. These laws are on our statute books because the public is entitled to know how its money is budgeted and how it is spent. Audits are compulsory and had our state officials complied with the law regarding an annual audit, the bookmakers book-makers of Salt Lake would have received less money from Mr. Pugh. Public boards should be the last to violate our laws. The publication laws were designed both as a check on and a protection to our officials. The law specifically states that each expenditure of public funds shall be published in a newspaper, with the statement to whom and for what. Do you, Reader, know how much money our county spent last summer on road work and to whom? Do you know who sells coal to the board of education and at what price? If you complain abut certain cer-tain departments of our school, do you know what salarj the heads of those departments are getting? Yon ought to know and have a right to the published information for its your money that's spent. 1 : |