Our View: County should have better access

It’s interesting when a politician starts openly fighting for public access to meetings.

Yes, that statement comes from a somewhat jaded outlook, as it most often has been politicians who have argued the case for less transparency, not more. So imagine our surprise when Sweetwater County Commissioner John Kolb started talking about being declined access to committee meetings involving Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Board of Trustees. His comments to us about the problem certainly got our attention.

Kolb alleges he was kept out of committee meetings because those meetings did n...