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Opinion by Chris Smith, Clarksville Now editor-in-chief:
What happens when a good law designed to ensure government transparency to the public outlives its usefulness to the public? That’s at the crux of a proposal that’s been floating around the state Legislature the last few sessions, and it’s tangled up with historic shifts in technology, in journalism and in the very connective tissue of communities across Tennessee…