From a small paper in Glens Falls, N.Y., comes the powerful voice of Editorial Page Editor Mark Mahoney. His “relentless, down-to-earth editorials on the perils of local government secrecy," won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Read his winning entries from The Post-Star.

Right-to-know editorials by Mark Mahoney, The Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y.:

• 'Shush' is not open government
• Keeping the school board zipped up
• Boards should be invited in, not locked out
• Open tentative contracts to public
• Whitehall, state locked us out
• Public has right to view contract
• Committee sidesteps Open Meetings Law
• County taxpayers get short end of contract
• Upholding our right to know
• Use your rights...or lose them