Shine on
This is National Sunshine Week, a promotion intended to impress upon Americans the importance of open government. I had my say on the subject last week. Now, Al Tompkins of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies has pulled together an impressive list of related stories and editorials on the subject.
Coincidentally, there's also an interesting debate on open records and the news media's role in distributing and/or reporting on them, based on the N&R's reporting on the consultant's report on former police chief David Wray, going on over at JR's blog.
UPDATE: Just to show you that I'm not completely nutso on this topic, here's a case in which a little more government secrecy definitely would be in order.