Our View: Committee meetings should open

The importance of Wyoming’s public meetings laws cannot be understated.

Those laws allow every Wyoming resident the right to attend and learn about how their government works. They allow residents the opportunity to learn about what’s happening in their towns, school districts, public hospitals – even their local water and sewer systems.

When we say we think a board is acting against the spirit of those laws, it’s not something we do lightly, and we believe the board of trustees for Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County are acting against those laws. The board, by creating a number...