Taxes: April 2009 Archives

More news today surrounding the LD 1353 bill that would hide public employees salary information.

This mornings editorial in the Kennebec Journal on LD 1353 points out that this bill to censor government employees salary information might be the result of a "you scratch our back we'll scratch yours" relationship between the Democrats in the Maine State Legislature and the public employees unions.

For an additional audio report on this story, listen to MPBN's report.

The Maine Heritage Policy Center has won the 2009 Sunshine Award, given by the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition, for it's creation of the MaineOpenGov.org website.

The Maine Open Government Blog was highlighted in the article by Tarren Bragdon, CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center: "the site will soon feature blogs -- both anonymous and bylined, said Bragdon."

An article about this award was also published in the Ellsworth American.


 

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