It's Sunshine Week!!!
Sunshine, George, not Moonshine!!! It's a week to celebrate one of the basic tenets of our democracy - the idea that the best government is a government that is transparent, one that doesn't hide public business from public view. You know, like hiding the fact you obligated $5.3 million for the rental of portable levees for protecting a cattle pasture for 10 months. When you pull back the curtains and let the sun shine in, the cucaratchas scatter. Here's the website.
But, if you have been following this blog the last year, you are an expert on the public records and the opening meetings acts. Remember about this time last year when I was battling Charorge's Misadministration over access to uncensured copies of Charlotte's expense records? The Public's Right To Know and the public's right to know was victorious in that matter - we got the records we wanted and the cost was reduced to 25 cent from 50 cent per copy.
HOORAY for the Sunshine laws!
Sunshine, George, not Moonshine!!! It's a week to celebrate one of the basic tenets of our democracy - the idea that the best government is a government that is transparent, one that doesn't hide public business from public view. You know, like hiding the fact you obligated $5.3 million for the rental of portable levees for protecting a cattle pasture for 10 months. When you pull back the curtains and let the sun shine in, the cucaratchas scatter. Here's the website.
But, if you have been following this blog the last year, you are an expert on the public records and the opening meetings acts. Remember about this time last year when I was battling Charorge's Misadministration over access to uncensured copies of Charlotte's expense records? The Public's Right To Know and the public's right to know was victorious in that matter - we got the records we wanted and the cost was reduced to 25 cent from 50 cent per copy.
HOORAY for the Sunshine laws!
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