Albany needs a whole lot more sunshine

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January 16, 2009

[edit] Albany needs a whole lot more sunshine

"New York's huge budget deficit - $15.4 billion in the next 15 months - will force difficult choices in terms of government services and tax policies for years to come. To engage intelligently in that debate, New Yorkers need far more information than we now receive from Albany.

As the Brennan Center for Justice observes in "Still Broken," a report on state legislative reform released this month, the Assembly and Senate maintain Web sites that are poorly organized and contain few of the products of the lawmaking process. Well into the information revolution, the legislature acts as if we're still in the technological era of Pong."

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