Mar. 18—Every citizen has a right to know what government is doing. Citizens have the right to know how government spends tax dollars, how government creates and implements policy, and how government ...

Florida, the “Sunshine State,” once known as a beacon of government transparency, is growing ever darker, and the clouds are spreading throughout the United States. From March 16-22, 2025, the nation ...

Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, which is why it is vital that a free press be able to cast sunlight on the workings of our representative government. That begins with our government ...

As we near the end of this year’s Sunshine Week, communities across the country are suffering not just because their public officials are doing business in the dark, but because in some regions there ...

For the past 10 years, the Michigan Press Association has given the Rep. Peter Petallia Memorial Sunshine Award to public servants who strive to promote and protect transparency in government. The ...

Florida has a strong tradition of open meetings and access to public information. Unfortunately, our leaders have an equally strong tradition of burrowing dark corners where once-open records and ...

Ken Paulson is the director of the Free Speech Center, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University and a former editor of USA TODAY. In seventh grade, I became friends with Brad, a young man from ...

Democrats and Republicans have tangled over whether efforts to pass healthcare reform are benefiting from backdoor deals and questionable parliamentary maneuvering. On Tuesday, however, there was some ...

As Sunshine Week got underway, Progressive Massachusetts pointed out that the Massachusetts House has taken fewer than half as many recorded votes so far this session than it had in any of the ...

Imagine for a moment a fractured country struggling to maintain its footing. Its leaders, paralyzed by combative differences. A polarized public growing increasingly disenfranchised. This could ...

A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. "It's your right to know." That's the theme of Sunshine Week, an annual chance for ...

With the 2024-’25 academic year underway at the universities of Minnesota and Minnesota Duluth (and elsewhere), students, faculty, administrators, staffers, and the public are becoming acquainted with ...