Our View: Let the sun shine into government

Reporters that cover elected officials learn pretty fast that candidates are all for open government.

But once elected, our public officials learn all too soon that the business of government is messy and the process of notifying the public can be lengthy and cumbersome.

It’s cumbersome because the informed citizen (you) reads newspapers and stays aware of what your elected officials have planned for your tax dollars, your land and your water.

And by your land and water we mean both the land on which your home sits and that land and water which we all own together as citizens: public property....