"Saturday wraps up Sunshine Week, designated in 2005 to highlight one of the bedrock tenets of democracy: Government is accountable to the people in almost all of its actions.

"Journalists and government watchdogs created and champion Sunshine Week. But we think there should be more people who are in on the party.

"As a reader, a community member and a person living in the U.S., what should Sunshine Week mean to you? It should be a reminder that the government and all of its agency works for you, not the other way around. Transparency is how that happens."