A friend of mine started this
http://www.citizensinformed.com/

Quote :

"You balance your budget and cut spending when you need to, why can’t our state government? Citizens Informed is a campaign formed to educate North Carolina citizens on the need for an online portal to host our state budget and spending database. We believe citizens should be able to track how their hard earned tax-dollars are being spent. Our online portal should be accessible searchable user-friendly in order to allow citizens the ability to track state government spending, contracts and grants. It’s time we join our federal government and 18 other states in making our government spending and budgeting processes more transparent."

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/group_pushes_for_better_online_budget
p.s. there is no funding/sponsorship from anyone - much less art pope

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/group_hopes_to_curb_spending_too

12/11/2008 2:43:37 PM

It has been argued persuasively that deficit spending during a recession is on-average a good policy. Of course, it has been taken way too far, as this behavior is automatic: as a recession hits, government revenues fall, so if they just maintain current spending then huge deficits will develop, which is good. The problem is that in response to a downturn they decide to spend even more, which threatens to do more than just borrow skiddish money; it also winds up borrowing money would have otherwise been productive.

12/11/2008 2:48:33 PM

well this thread did well

article in the paper this morning
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1334295.html

12/15/2008 11:29:44 AM

aha. N&O sources T-Dub.


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12/15/2008 12:08:21 PM