It's your right to know

This week – March 10-16 – is Sunshine Week, a week designed to promote open government and to spotlight the importance of government transparency and the freedom of information. Sunshine Week empowers people to take an active role at all levels of government and helps shine light into the dark recesses of government secrecy. It’s your right to know!

As the trusted, nonpartisan news source for Henrico County, the Henrico Citizen works to provide you with that information and with the most comprehensive coverage of all things Henrico, including government.

The Citizen often is the only publication that covers certain Henrico government and school board issues, meetings and actions.

We pride ourselves on providing the most fair, accurate and comprehensive coverage of Henrico government available, and we think that matters to our community and to you as a Henrico citizen. Without it, you’d be less knowledgeable about what your government is doing.

We’re proud to make all of our coverage free for anyone to read, and more than 70,000 of you do so each month. But we can’t do our work for free – we need your support to make it possible! Will you chip in $10 a month to help fund the important coverage we provide?

Or, give whatever amount you can afford – your contribution will help sustain us. If just 2% of our monthly readers contributed, we’d be able to hire a full-time govenment reporter!

Yours in community,
Tom Lappas, publisher