{"id":9123,"date":"2014-11-26T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2014-11-26T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T03:53:28","slug":"writer-is-looking-in-wrong-direction-for-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/writer-is-looking-in-wrong-direction-for-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer is looking in wrong direction for transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Don\u2019t shield your kids from the election process. October 16, 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a far cry to compare asking that schools be sign free (somehow suggesting this is an attack on freedom of speech) to what has happened in Hong Kong.<br \/>\nWith respect to Ms. Leonard\u2019s humble opinion on her comment on \u201cmore transparent and fair governance than we have these past four years in Aurora\u201d, I would like to point out if Ms. Leonard had bothered to do her homework, she would have realized that the previous Council under Phyllis Morris, of which John Gallo was a Councillor, spent almost double the time behind closed doors compared to the current Council.<br \/>\nIn fact they spent a total of 139 hours in closed session whereas our current council, under Mayor Dawe, has spent a total of 71 hours.<br \/>\nTo paraphrase Ms. Leonard \u201cIn my humble opinion I would have to say there has been more \u2018fair and transparent\u2019 governance under Mayor Dawe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Allen<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Don\u2019t shield your kids from the election process. October 16, 2014) It\u2019s a far cry to compare asking that schools be sign free (somehow suggesting this is an attack on freedom of speech) to what has happened in Hong Kong. With respect to Ms. Leonard\u2019s humble opinion on her comment on \u201cmore transparent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}