Rep. Mike Coffman Town Hall Meeting, Featuring MoveOn Hecklers

by T.L. James | 10:19 pm, August 28, 2011

Here is the full video from yesterday morning’s town hall meeting in Littleton. A local MoveOn.org organizer was trying last week to get people to show up and ask questions featuring the inane mantra “Jobs Not Cuts” — as you’ll see, a couple people worked it into their questions/statements, and the rest just heckled in [...]

Transparency 101: How Jeffco did it…

by Amy Oliver | 4:22 am, September 3, 2009

Jefferson County Administrator Jim Moore is a bureaucrat on a seemingly impossible mission.  He wants to re-establish trust between Jefferson County residents and their government. How? By being as open and transparent as possible.  According to a blog post from Moore:
Complete and accurate information is the best antidote to the spin and sometimes deliberate misinformation that has [...]

Jeffco sets standard on transparency

by Amy Oliver | 6:20 am, July 20, 2009

COST wants to thank Jefferson County for being “one of only a handful of Colorado government entities to post line-item expense account charges, contracts and the county’s checkbook. All the information is in a searchable database available to anyone with access to the Web,” according to Charley Able from the Lakewood Edge. 
Jeffco’s Transparency Initiative sets the [...]

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