Three years ago we set out to keep a close eye on how government in Hawaiʻi is serving the public. Our “Let The Sunshine In” project has been primarily focused on accountability, transparency and ethical issues and especially whether the public is being included in the debate over issues and events that very much affect their everyday lives.
Holding government and political leaders to account often comes across as negative — someone doing something wrong, a flawed or failed program, public information being withheld unnecessarily.
But accountability doesn’t always have to be bad news. That’s why we’re launching a new feature of the Sunshine project we’re calling “Bright Spots.” In this occasional series we want to shine a light on people and programs that are working well. They’re not broken and they don’t need to be fixed, they function without a fuss…