Exercise your right to know, during Sunshine Week and beyond

Sunshine is great.

But it only matters if you take advantage of it.

The following situation has played out at public meetings recently:

Concerned resident: “I’m upset because I had no idea this was going on.”

Public official: “Well, we’ve had announcements on the radio. And information has been printed in the newspaper.”

Concerned resident: “I don’t listen to the radio and I don’t read the newspaper.”

I…