No Taxation Without Information
Today Paul Jacob profiles a website and a Colorado citizen who are devoted to government transparency.
In Jacob’s Tuesday Common Sense commentary, he writes about the Sunshine Review website and how it’s helping blogger Amy Oliver to ask her various government bodies to post their expenditures online.
Amy’s new mission is to persuade her town, Greeley, Colorado, her local school district, her county, and the state of Colorado to post their check registries on the Web in a searchable database. She wants to know where the money is going in precise detail — “not just from some annual report that breaks down a budget by category.” The check registries are already a matter of public record, but it can be cumbersome to gain access to them.
I couldn’t have said it better myself, Amy (or Paul). Read the entire commentary here, and be sure to inquire with me about how you can make your government transparent right here in Illinois.
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