Massachusetts Transparency: A long, long waiting game

For over a year now, the Pioneer Institute has been pursuing a series of public records requests on a variety of issues, from school performance to the state’s fated investment into Evergreen Solar. It’s largely been an exercise in frustration, denials misdirection, but I have learned some things about the state of public access in Massachusetts, and given the state’s been crowing about a recent A- transparency report card , it seemed like a good time to share it with a handy infographic (Click to enlarge).