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October 6, 2008 by
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The asks today: Why do Chicago and Mayor Richard Daley face $420 million budget shortfall?
This is the Trib’s explanation:
1. Many city workers make a lot more than average Chicagoans.
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2. The city depends heavily on taxing real estate sales.
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3. Millions of tax dollars are siphoned to boost development.
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4. City Hall builds little cushion into the budget.
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Wages, real estate, TIFs, and cushion… but where’s the Transparency? Citizens should have easy access to lobbying costs, ethics policies, audits, and tax information on the city government website. As a Chicago resident, I feel the pinch of big government every day- yearly parking fees, rising transit costs, bottled water taxes, the highest sales tax in the nation, etc etc etc… Maybe Cook County voters wouldn’t be considering an advisory referendum to add a recall provision if they were confident their money was being spent responsibly.
Look for the Windy City transparency information I was able to find.
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October 1, 2008 by
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Sometimes a situation has to get really bad before it gets noticed and a number of people work to clean it up. That is apparently what is going on with ethics in , as transparency sites are popping up in record numbers. (In case you’re not paying attention, that’s a good thing.)
The newest kid on the block is , a site by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. It has expanding databases for expenditures for counties, cities, schools, and fire districts as well as state contracts and agency spending.
The one temporary drawback of the site, according to , is a lack of recent facts and figures.
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It’s great to have the transparency trifecta of , , and .
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October 1, 2008 by
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According to , the official blog, governor recently placed the state’s budget and expenditures online on a new website. According to the site, citizens can
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Sounds great… but here’s an interesting little background nugget from NTU…
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Face it- transparency is a great issue for the predictable crowd of taxpayers, ethics gurus, citizen journalists, government wonks, and anyone wanting to do business with the state… but it’s also a political goldmine. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do, easy to accomplish, somewhat insulates candidates on ethics issues (whether they need it or not), and it pays political dividends for years to come.