The scratchy image above is the page 35 of British MP Jim Murphy's Additional Costs Allowance from 2007/2008. Item 5 on the list is a shave mirror for £17. Whether that is a legitimate expense to pass along to ...Read More
We have posted previously about the excitement drawn from following a state legislator while voting on the house floor during a weekend session as deadlines loomed. Since then, we've been made aware of this section of SourceWatch - Your ...Read More
Beginning days after President Obama took office, calls for government transparency are everywhere (I realize Mr. Obama did not invent transparency and that there were watchdog groups and transparency advocates before, but things surely have intensified in the last ...Read More
Washington D.C. was ranked best municipal website recently, according to the Public Technology Institute. City websites were surveyed jointly by the E-Governance Institute, School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, and the Department of Public Administration at ...Read More
In Chicago, intersections that have been equipped with red-light cameras have seen traffic accident occurrences decrease by 20%. In addition, they have generated revenue for the city to the tune of $122 million, valuable at a time when city budgets ...Read More
New York City has been in the news for keeping on the forefront of technology use in government. First, a few weeks ago, the city launched a wireless network for use by first responders. Large files including fingerprints, mug shots, ...Read More
With almost 1000 violent crimes per 100,000 people, Memphis Tennessee reluctantly takes the title of 2nd most dangerous city in the US (following Detroit, MI, with 1200 crimes per 100,000). The City of Memphis and Police Department have taken award winning ...Read More
Thousands of people may not want to know that I had a burger for dinner tonight, and it was pretty good. And they probably do not really want to know what I'm doing right now. So why would they want ...Read More
City services in Boston have greatly improved lately, according to a Boston Globe article this week. Some services, such as burnt street lights replacement, recycling bin requests, and park maintenance requests are now happening 2 or 3 times faster as ...Read More