Editor’s Column: Those Pesky Legal Notices

Some papers call them public notices. We call them legal notices. They’re in the classifieds section, before the stuff like what’s for rent and who’s

having a yard sale this weekend. Most of us ignore the legal notices, because they tend to be written in legalese. (I’m dating myself here, but “mumbo-jumbo, mumbo-jumbo” comes to mind.)
Municipalities and special districts are tasked with publishing their agendas and their notices to bid and various…