How to open N.C.’s books
Friday, March 28th, 2008
By Staff
Government should inform public by posting spending on Web site
From Becki Gray, a former legislative staffer who is vice president for outreach at the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation:
There's a revolution underway in state government — a movement toward more public participation, more information available more rapidly via the Internet, and more transparency in how taxpayers' money is budgeted and who actually gets the money. Unfortunately, North Carolina isn't participating yet.
Openness and budget transparency aren't minor issues. Everything government does, it does with taxpayer dollars. By failing to provide good and timely information about expenditures, our state government is not accountable. (more…)
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