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an effort to create searchable online databases for government expenditures
a tool to highlight the hypocrisy of tax hikers
Constitutional or statutory requirement to rein in growth of revenues end expenditures
a commitment made by elected officials and candidates for elected office never to raise taxes
Raising the bar for tax increases
Requiring a cool-off period for all bills with a fiscal impact
pork-barrel spending - the broken windows of the budget
Next Week is Sunshine Week!
Friday, March 12, 2010 1:21 PM
Not only will we have an hour more daylight at the end of the day beginning next week - it's also national Sunshine Week.
Sunshine Week stems from an initiative by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, which first launched a "Sunshine Sunday" in 2002 in response to legislative efforts to curb access to public records. Sunshine Sunday helped defeat these efforts, and by 2005, after several other states had followed Florida's lead, and in 2003, the American Society of News Editors hosted a national conference laying the foundation for Sunshine Week. The first Sunshine Week was then launched in 2005.
While the initial focus may have been on Freedom of Information-related issues, many open government groups focusing on other aspects of government accountability have since used Sunshine Week and the heightened national attention to transparency during those days to highlight issues they are focused on.
We're expecting Sunshine Week 2010 to be no different, and we'll be covering interesting Sunshine Week-related things as they pop up.
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