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Thursday, January 31, 2008

State-Spending Searchable Database Legislation--Update

This story from The Olympian reports that just about everyone in the Legislature supports the bill to create a searchable database of state spending to allow the public to track how their money is being spent--but they don't want to spend the $1.4 million start-up cost.

Update: the Washington Policy Center, a propenent of the searchable database, responds here.