Oped: Transparency

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/its-official-daniel-grabauskas-now-highest-paid-city-employee/123 It’s official – Daniel Grabauskas is now the highest paid city employee. The former chairman and senior strategic adviser of the Bronner Center for Transportation Management and former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was confirmed today by the...

http://www.wickedlocal.com/arlington/news/x1569726331/Open-Checkbook-State-vendors-in-Arlington#axzz2O6UfvORR Earlier this month, state Treasurer Steve Grossman launched Open Checkbook,  fulfilling a campaign promise creating a new window into the inner-workings of  government. The site contains a trove of data, listing every state employee’s salary,  the line-by-line spending in each department...

MuckRock is an online startup that helps journalists streamline, track, and fulfill their public records requests. Since May 2010, when the beta version of the site debuted, they’ve had 851 requests filed, 232 requests successfully completed, and 66 requests denied. The site...

http://www.lowellsun.com/editorials/ci_19909427 Last month, the federal government declared lights out on the incandescent light bulb. Now we’re supposed to convert over to compact florescent bulbs, or jars filled with fireflies. Thomas Edison’s hot-filament-in-a-bulb technology lasted more than 130 years and would have kept...

http://www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/newsnow/x132492920/Danvers-man-s-proposal-for-EZ-ID-license-plates-endorsed?zc_p=1#axzz2NcNYjWOG The New England Association of Chiefs of Police has unanimously endorsed the  EZ-ID bill state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, filed and  state Sen. John F. Keenan, D-Quincy, and state Rep. Anne M. Gobi, D-Spencer,  co-sponsored. Senate Bill 1798, also...