A month ago, State Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter announced the success the Treasurer’s Office has had in shifting vendors from check payments from the state to ACH payments. The release, posted on Jones-Potter’s blog highlighted that 76 percent of Grant-in-Aid recipients have converted to ACH (electronic) payments. Through July, 20 of 312 vendors had signed up [...]
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Small savings can add up
Posted in Delaware, DelawareSpends, Jones-Potter, Spending on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman”
Posted in DelawareSpends, Economy, Government Spending on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker wants to strengthen the City’s tax code, resulting in stricter enforcement of tax collection rules and procedures, and producing millions of more tax dollars each year. In a press release sent Tuesday morning, Baker announced he is asking the City Council to approve four ordinances, which he claims do not impose [...]
Center for Fiscal Accountability
Posted in DelawareSpends, Markell on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Center for Fiscal Accountability has spotlighted DelawareSpends in their weekly communication. From their weekly email: Last week, CFA was represented at the annual American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference. We had a great panel discussion on state spending transparency efforts and worked successfully with several of our friends to pass school district spending transparency [...]
Dover Post spotlights DelawareSpends.com
Posted in DelawareSpends on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, the Dover Post featured DelawareSpends.com in an article on open government and the movement’s gaining momentum in Delaware. Check it out at CaesarRodney.org or at the Dover Post.
National Organizations Commend DelawareSpends.com
Posted in DelawareSpends on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DelawareSpends received praise by Americans for Tax Reform upon its launch last week. The first mention appeared on the site of ATR’s Center for Fiscal Accountability. The second appeared as part of a larger story highlighting the state-based movement to increase transparency.
