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Commentary by Martin Dyckman | March 18, 2026
Herbert Block, The Washington Post’s legendary political cartoonist, advocated tirelessly for government in the sunshine. The first page of his 1957 anthology, HERBLOCK’s Special for Today, depicted two bureaucrats discussing a stack of documents in a government office. One is reaching for a set of rubber stamps on his desk.
“Well,” he says to the other, “We certainly botched this job. What’ll we stamp it – ‘Secret’ or ‘Top Secret?’”
Florida has – or used to have – the nation’s strongest government-in-the-sunshine laws. The Legislature has riddled them with more than a thousand exemptions. And now, officials don’t even need that form of rubber stamp to conceal whatever they choose to keep secret.
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