Showing posts with label Open Government: Mission Unfulfilled. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Open Government: Mission Unfulfilled. Show all posts
July 11, 2014

The last day to submit FCC comment on network neutrality is July 15 2014

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The last day to submit FCC comment on network neutrality is July 15 2014. This is it folks. If you want blogs and small non corporate websi...
July 7, 2014

Lakewood is correct in opposing a California Assembly resolution which seeks to eliminate the ability of cities to outsource services

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The City of Lakewood is opposing this California Assembly resolution (also reprinted below as of this posting; House Resolution No. 29) w...
April 21, 2011

Here we go again?

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This is starting to become a problem. Now that city budgets are getting tight in the downturn the ugly truth is coming out: mismanagement or...
April 7, 2011

Transparency and Open Government in Lakewood: Larry Van Nostran does not get it

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The only thing that happened to LAAG's transparency pledge we sent to all candidates (including Larry Van Nostran) on 2/17/11 was that ...
February 21, 2011

The need for transparency in local government grows

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See our related post on our proposed candidates transparency pledge This story from the LA Times is quite timely given our prior post and...
February 17, 2011

The Lakewood transparency in local government pledge

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Update: see related post on need for transparency and our Candidate Review We are asking all Lakewood City Council candidates, and incu...
January 4, 2011

Open Government Proposals..Finally

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Its sad but apparently Long Beach has once again beaten Lakewood to the starting line. This time on "open government" or "tra...
September 3, 2010

State Controller's revised Local Government Compensation Report (LGCR) due Oct. 2010

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On the heels of LAAG's PRA (public information request) to the city of Lakewood regarding salaries of all top Lakewood city employees in...
August 20, 2010

City of Lakewood responds to LAAG's public records request on city employee salaries

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We find it sad and disheartening that Lakewood did not step forward right after the City of Bell scandal broke like so many other cities did...
August 6, 2010

City of Bell..the salaries are only the tip of the Iceberg (and the taxpayers are on the Titanic)

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We read these two articles below and became even more outraged at the Bell scandal, which really is only just beginning from what we hear fr...

City manger compensation in LA County 2009

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Well this is a bit of an eye popping chart but again hats off to the LA Times for compiling this info so quickly in light of the Bell scand...
August 3, 2010

State Controller Takes Quick Action to Prevent Another City of Bell Debacle

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We applaud State Controller John Chiang's move as reported in the LA Times below (as well as the Controllers own press release below) as...