Not too many Tar Heels of the Week end up in jail.
But North Carolina newspaper publisher Tom Boney Jr. was arrested Tuesday for refusing to leave a government meeting he said was being closed improperly.
Boney, 52, is editor and publisher of The Alamance News, a weekly paper in Graham.
He asked commissioners of the Burlington-Alamance Airport Authority to assure him they would not talk or vote about a proposed financing package for an unidentified manufacturer during a closed session.
The state's Open Meetings Laws allows public officials to close meetings to discuss economic development, but Boney argued that it does not cover spending government money.
When he refused to leave the meeting, he was taken to jail by the county sheriff.
Boney was the N&O's Tar Heel of the Week on March 19, 2006.
Hat Tip: Matthew Eisley
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