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Massachusetts should lead the nation in open government, not lag behind

March 15, 2013 By creightt 9 Comments

The Sunlight Foundation just released its legislative transparency report card as part of “Sunshine” week, a week dedicated to calling attention to the need for greater transparency in government. The Massachusetts Legislature received a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: open-government, Public Records Laws, sunshine-week

New Video: Governor Patrick & JT nailed the issues yesterday.

September 27, 2010 By kingcast 9 Comments

This video is a wake up call Moderates who are considering a GOP/Tea Party vote and to Dems who mamby-pamby the evil that the GOP represents. It is long, but worth every second to view. Sometimes it takes a while to thoroughly explain an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: big-dig, charlie-baker, civil-rights, dems, education, energy, gop, governor-patrick, health-care, immigration, joe-arpaio, kelly-ayotte, kingcast, lee-fisher, open-government, paul-hodes, south-end, taxes, titus-park, unemployment

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

March 18, 2009 By akingsley Leave a Comment

According to statistics from the Pew Research Center, 74% American adults use the Internet and nearly 59% of those individuals use it to visit a government website. There are no statistics, however, for what these visits yield. In early … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: internet, open-government, sunshine-week, transparency

Boston City Council Pleading Guilty to Open Meeting Charges

September 30, 2008 By theszak 1 Comment

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Post about Council Pleading Guilty to Open Meeting Charges http://electkevin.blogspot.com... electkevin.blogspot.com/2008/09/post-about-council-pleading-guilty-to.html … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-city-council, city-councils, city-hall, foi, freedom-of-information, open-government, public-records, sunshine-open-public-meetings

A want ad I never thought I would see

July 12, 2008 By Christopher 2 Comments

I was browsing Craigslist and came across this job posting.  I do not agree with the premise that legislators should simply be delegates slavishly following the expressed preferences of their constituents.  I also think Mr. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, open-government

failure of the Boston Finance Commission to comply… Commission meeting minutes.

June 18, 2008 By theszak 2 Comments

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc... Alan N. Cote Supervisor of Records email pre at sec.state.ma.us June 13, 2006 SPR08/026 The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-finance-commission, foi, freedom-of-information, open-government, open-meetings, public-records, sunshine

Governmental bodies are required to keep accurate written minutes of all of their meetings.

April 27, 2008 By theszak Leave a Comment

ENSE PETIT PLACIDAM SVB LIBERTATE QVIETEM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Flag_of_Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-finance-commission, foi, freedom-of-information, open-government, open-meetings, public-records, sunshine

Why you should care about Microsoft and their OOXML

July 10, 2007 By dweir 12 Comments

OOXML is Microsoft's spec. It was not developed out of the goodness of MS; it was done only because they thought they would lose market share.  It is riddled with so many errors that they have had to stack with their own lackeys the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: microsoft, open-government

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