Imagine you’re about to have heart surgery. Would you want your doctor operating on your heart in the dark? Or without looking at your...
We’ve updated our “Who’s Posting Expenditures in Illinois?” list today to include the Highland Park D133...
We’ve updated our “Who’s Posting Expenditures In Illinois?” to include Coal City Community Unit School D1. We have also...
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A big thanks to Riverside Brookfield High School D208 for joining the list of transparent government bodies in Illinois! And, thank you, Adam Andrzejewski, for your continued hard work!
What school district will be next? County board? Park…
This should be shocking…and yet… nothing shocks me these days.
Blagojevich also wants the federal government to put Illinois on the list of states seeking relief under any kind of economic stimulus package. Specifically, the governor wants more than $1 billion…
CTA strikes again. See here for brief details.
Like we have said before, the CTA needs transparency. In order to get its budget under control, find wasteful spending, weed it out, and clean up the budget — rather than letting budget mismanagement and waste continue, “solving” the problem by raising fares over, and over, and over again and throwing blame around — implementing transparency would provide the first step to solving the CTA’s budget problems.
Last night, Liberty Leaders Dianna Visek and John Bambenek attended a special meeting of the Parkland College board of trustees to ask them to be more forthcoming about their finances and financial decisions. The board wants to borrow $87 million…
WWBOD? What would Barack Obama do? Seriously… why are Illinois “elected officials…talking…that the Barack Obama presidency will do much of the heavy lifting” to shape up the CTA?
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Here’s a blurb out of a good article from Charleston, SC making the case for transparency:
“Empowering ordinary citizens with the access to how money is spent and how their representatives vote will help safeguard the public trust,…
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Negotiations between school boards and teachers unions should be open to the public. Huntley School D158 posts its negotiations online, but I am not aware of other school districts in Illinois that do this, yet. The following…
Although it’s for the Cayman Islands, I thought that this was an insightful video that shows how government looks at the citizens’ right to know. Have you seen any FOIA videos like this stateside? Are the training videos and other…
Our transparency pledge page has been updated to include the newest signatories of the pledge! Have your elected officials and preferred candidates signed on?
These candidates and elected officials have already committed to transparency:
Michael Connelly: Candidate for 48th Illinois Rep. District- August…
Imagine you’re about to have heart surgery. Would you want your doctor operating on your heart in the dark? Or without looking at your x-ray first? Without an x-ray, he wouldn’t know where to operate, the severity of your sickness…
