Senator Lisa Marrache (D), Waterville, Has at Least One Ally…Big Labor
With a non-stop flurry of editorials, comments, and opinion pieces lambasting Senator Marrache for her bill LD 1353 – that would hide public employees names from their salary information – […]
Read More →LD 1353, a bill to hide public employees names, continues to draw criticism
As we move quickly toward an April 30th public hearing on LD 1353, a bill that would hide public employees names as it related to their tax-payer funded salaries, local […]
Read More →Assistant Senate Democrat Leader says MaineOpenGov.org is a “witchhunt”
Assistant Democrat Leader Lisa Marrache (D) – Waterville, responded directly today to several media stories about her proposed bill to hide names from public employees salary information. Her opinon piece […]
Read More →Sign the Online Petition to Stop Government Censorship
LD 1353, “An Act Regarding Salary Information for Public Employees,” would censor the taxpayer-paid salaries of some 90,000 Maine government, school and other public employees, trampling the right of the […]
Read More →Kennebec Journal “Nothing Wrong with State Employees Salaries List”
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 […]
Read More →Legislators say bill to hide public employees salary info is not “secretive”
In today’s Portland Press Herald article about LD 1353, a bill that would hide public employees salary information, Democrat Senator Leadership speaks out against MaineOpenGov.org. Elizabeth Mitchell (D) – Vassalboro, […]
Read More →LD 1353 Would Make Public Employee Information Confidential
This Lewiston Sun-Journal article outlines a bill introduced in the Maine State Legislature that is what the Sun-Journal calls… “legislation to separate the names of state workers from their salaries, […]
Read More →The Maine Heritage Policy Center is 2009 Sunshine Award Recipient
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 […]
Read More →Welcome to Maine Open Government Blog!
Welcome to the new Maine Open Government Blog! Our goal is for the Maine Open Government Blog to become a statewide hub through which Maine taxpayers can share, analyze and […]
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