State Spending Transparency Hearing

State Spending Transparency Hearing

This is a great post from across the Delaware where they are debating a bill on making spending by the Commonwealth transparent to taxpayers...

I was particularly interested in the note from the testimony from the former Chief of Staff to the Governor of Missouri, who noted that their web portal had more than 20 Million hits, and that constituents had already identified savings for the state. All this, and according to him, the site was built with current staff and no additional funding.

In an era of fiscal distress, this would seem to be a natural way to improve government... and yet there is significant opposition. The more things change...