When bad politicians go transparent

After being convicted for embezzlement in late 2009, Balitmore’s Mayor Sheila Dixon has sponsored a great transparency website for payments made to city vendors. It will address payments made by 51 city agencies and offices and will be updated every 45 days.

Usability of the site will include searching by City agency to view payments authorized by that agency; searching by vendor for payments issued to that vendor; and searching by zip code to view all payments issued to vendors in a particular zip code.

Check out the website here: Baltimore Transparency

Talk about learning from your mistakes, if only more politicians did that.