Eric Hartley: @Openness: A new age in governing

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oops - 2009-11-23 15:09:41

Unfortunately, on this site a person cannot delete his comment after noticing a grammatical error.

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Transparency - 2009-11-23 14:27:45

I hope the readers are not deceived into believing blogs, tweets and facebook posts facilitate transparency or accountability. In fact all of these posts can be, and frequently are, deleted when their prophecies prove false or their rhetorical contents falls out of fashion.

Delegate Ron George of District 30 has co-sponsored real legislation aimed at achieving real transparency and real accountability in state government:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007s1/billfile/hb0007.htm

I want to say thank you to Delegate George and the other co-sponsors. Please keep trying!

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Interesting - 2009-11-21 09:10:23

that the examples given were a liberal group and a democrat. Is it amazing to only Eric that the press didn't pick up on either?

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