Public Transit and Good Government
Do you think that an interested “adult city resident” should be able to contact another “adult city resident” who sits on a city government oversight committee advisory to the Common Council? Do you think a Dane County citizen has the right to know who is on a county government office’s “working group” that is tasked with making policy recommendations for adoption by the larger council? Are you suspicious when someone has special access to governmental decision making (and its purse) but does not have to provide basic contact or naming information in return for that access? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then welcome to the idea of good governance. Welcome too to the reality that our current government is less transparent. According to a recent article of the Simpson Street Free Press reprinted in the Madison Commons: In a unanimous 2017 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that committees created by local governmental bodies in Wiscons