(Editor’s Note: This editorial appeared in the Brownsville Herald on Sunday. It is worth noting that Sunshine Week is for everyone – because we are all affected by governmental employees and officials in one way or another.)

by Carlos A. Rodriguez
Brownsville Herald

Today starts Sunshine Week, an annual media campaign that highlights the need — and right — to know what our elected officials are doing and how our tax dollars are being spent.

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice...