As it often goes in the great cha-cha slide that is governmental transparency, Texans often find themselves taking two steps back for every small step forward.

Offering officials a little more leeway in dancing around already bare-bones rules meant for clarity can set an awfully dangerous precedent.

Imagine the groan then from every newspaper editor and publisher across Texas Feb. 27 when the state’s highest court struck down a provision of the state’s Open Meeting Act relating to &ldq...