As the economy continues to suffer, and as city and state budget deficits continue to grow, the whole system of government revenue can be called into question.  With the system we have operating today, municipal governments act as an accelerator ...Read More

First, consider this contest sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation, Apps for America 2: the data.gov challenge.  There was an Apps for America 1, and Apps for Democracy in Washington DC, and the Knight News Challenge, and many other recent contests ...Read More

Corporations reward their employers with bonus compensation and salary increases relative to how well they perform.  In sports, New York Yankee’s third baseman Cody Ransom earns $450,200 per year, while teammate Alex Rodriguez earns 73 times as much ($33 million) ...Read More