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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Sunshine Week: Searchable State-Spending Database

This op-ed piece by Jason Mercier of the Washington Policy Center appeared in the Bellingham Herald.

This searchable database will do more than many people realize to shine the light of public scrutiny on spending abuses. It's probably good that few realize the power of this new law or the Legislature never would have passed it.
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