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Sunshine Week (Official Site)
The first national Sunshine Week: Your Right to Know was launched March 13, 2005 and continued through the following Saturday. The spirit of Sunshine Week, however, lasts through the year, as newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, Web sites and others continue a dialogue about the importance of open government to the public.
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OMBWatch: Sunshine Week Shines Surrounded by Secrecy’s Shadows
Government secrecy has become so pervasive that journalists used newspapers, TV, and radio to focus public attention on the problem and promote open government as part of the first-ever national Sunshine Week.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Special Sunshine Week report
U.S. has long standard of open trials, records; Advocates praise electronic meetings; Va. agency paves way to openness; Culpeper board sued over closure
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Rod Smolla: American System Requires Sunshine
Transparency and secrecy are in constant tension in our society, a tension often fed by face-offs pitting government against the media.
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The Roanoke Times: Ignorance and apathy imperil freedom
Tommy Denton, editorial page editor: "Ignorance and apathy imperil freedom. According to a survey of 100,000 high school students, nearly 8,000 teachers and more than 500 administrators and principals, U.S. youths are failing to receive adequate instruction in the primary articles of faith as citizens in their democratic republic. The next generation will be unable to reap what has not been sown in them, and that should be cause for alarm for all but the mere sunshine patriots.
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