Sunshine Week: Thursday

A piece from yesterday and today:

• The Olympian editorial on some bright spots and concerns about recent bills.

Sunshine Week: Wednesday

Here are the pieces on Sunshine week from yesterday and today:

• The Washington Post reports that President Obama is receiving an open-government award despite his administration's mixed (some say, poor) record.
  
• An editorial from The (Vancouver) Columbian on Sunshine Week.
  
• A Seattle Times piece on a Sunshine Week forum in Seattle.

Sunshine Week: Tuesday

Here are some items from today and yesterday:

• Olympian piece on Sunshine Week
  
• Washington Coalition for Open Government's award of a Key Award to Gloria Howell, who used public records to uncover alleged corruption by a county official

Sunshine Week

It's that time of year. Sunshine week is this week.

It's a national effort. We'll have lots of things up on og-blog this week.

Articles, Editorials, and Op-Eds

Here are the pieces from today and this weekend:

• AP piece on the horrible bills in the Legislature this year.
  
• Jason Mercier's op-ed in the Bellingham Herald and the Wenatchee World on legislative transparency. Here is Mercier's model language for a solution to the problem.
  
• Tri-City Herald story on the town of Mesa, nearly bankrupted because of its flagrant Public Records Act violations.
  
• Kitsap Sun editorial on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in a FOIA case involving records in Kitsap County.
  
• Yakima Herald-Republic editorial on Sunshine Week.
  
• The (Everett) Herald editorial on legislative transparency and Sunshine Week.
  
• AP piece on President Obama's failure to deliver on promises of more openness in the federal government.
  

Public Records Show ... School Bus Driver Accused of Past Violence Against Children

The (Everett) Herald has this story, which could only be presented because of access to public records.