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All interested in government transparency, check out this new site, sunshinestandard.org, created by Sunshine Review.

The website aims to provide citizens and elected officials with model legislation and tools to launch reforms and expand the amount of information available …

What is your school district spending money on?

Check out some new spending data available on our spending transparency website, IllinoisOpenGov.org.

We have included school vendor information for you to check out! We’ll also be updating current information …

Yesterday the state of Texas launched its “re-branded and redesigned” Texas.gov, the state’s official website.

Now, Texans can “search for information that matters to them, perform online transactions with 24/7 assistance, use an intuitive and effective search function, …

Want to find out how Cook County is spending your tax dollars?

Check out its check register here and see where your tax dollars are going.

ABC 7′s I-Team found some interesting expenses of note, such as $6,243.75 to CROE …

For a look into Illinois state spending, check out the new transparency website, http://accountability.illinois.gov.

This site provides a good, first step towards more transparency in Illinois, but it still needs some work. For instance, it would be more helpful …

On Tuesday, August 11, Governor Pat Quinn signed spending transparency legislation—requiring a public, accessible website listing all state expenditures for taxpayers to see—into law.

The bill, called the Illinois Accountability Portal (HB35), passed both the House and Senate unanimously on …

ForeSee Results, a customer satisfaction research firm, recently released a study furthering the argument for government transparency.

Applying an existing customer satisfaction model, ForeSee concluded that government agencies operating with transparency enjoy higher citizen satisfaction which in turn, promotes …

Kudos to Bob Grogan indeed - see this letter to the editor in the Daily Herald. Tower Lakes resident, Michael Woloshin, makes a crucial point and one you should ask of your own local government (and representatives in the legislature)!!…

The County of DuPage has made itself the first county in Illinois to implement transparency and post all expenditures online in an itemized database. This marks a positive step in the direction of good government, and other counties should follow …

Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist discusses his group’s new project the Center for Fiscal Accountability in this video. “Every dollar spent should be open to be looked at by you and every other taxpayer in your neighborhood,” says …