Potato chip wars

I absolutely loved an anecdote from atop Sean Adkins' story in today's paper. Here it is:

"Every couple of years, Frito-Lay officials stop by the Hanover Borough office to check
out any new building permits filed by Utz Quality Foods.
   "Basically, those officials are searching for any clue to expansion within Utz -- a sign the
potato chip maker could be sharpening its competitive edge within the snack food industry, said Bruce Rebert, Hanover's borough manager."

The reason I love it is because it's easy to think of open records being a media issue, so, for example, a newspaper's fight to increase the public's access to open records can be seen as self-serving.

 But here's a situation where a company uses access to public records as part of its strategy to compete for market share. So businesses, too, have a stake in the effort to maintain and increase access to government records.