“Coronado is doing better than many other communities but it is our obligation to spend every tax dollar as wisely as we can,” he said in a follow-up interview. “We want to be transparent. The public needs to know how much people are being compensated.”
King said his daughter is studying journalism in college and he reminds her that while she and her classmates examine the public’s right to government information, elsewhere on campus young people are learning good government.
“You have to feel you have something to offer to improve people’s lives,” King said. But, “I’m also fearful there are people who are attracted to this profession because of income or other reasons, without that public-service perspective.”
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