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This County Has ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµâ€™s Most Transparent Government

By Caleb Taylor Is your county government giving citizens all the facts they need to stay informed? You can find out through a new Transparency Index released by the ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ Center for Research in Economics this week. This inaugural index produced by ACRE Policy Analyst Mavuto Kalulu and Program Coordinator Terra Aquia ranks all ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ […]

ACRE Alum Momand Discusses How Citizens Can Improve Regulations

By Caleb Taylor Federal regulators do read the comments, but are you submitting any? Former ACRE Research Fellow and UCA Schedler Honors College alum Maleka Momand was a guest at the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Teleforum, The Commenting Power: Agency Accountability through Public Participation, on March 21st to discuss the federal “notice and comment rulemaking […]

Shine a Light on Local Governments

By Caleb Taylor In an op-ed published Thursday in the ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ Democrat-Gazette, ACRE Policy Analyst Dr. Mavuto Kalulu and ACRE Research Assistant Terra Aquia discuss the need for greater transparency of county government operations in ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ. According to Kalulu and Aquia, county governments in general are far less transparent than state government in ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ. Kalulu […]

ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ County Government Cannot Be ‘Transparent’ When One-Third of Them Have No Web Presence

By Dr. David Mitchell For Arkansans to be able to insist upon and receive good government, we must have easily available information about county government finances. Currently ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ law requires that county governments make their financial status public only once per year, and only in the print newspaper with the largest circulation in the county. […]

State Mandates for County Fiscal Transparency are Outdated

In order to be effective citizens who insist upon and receive good government, voters must have information. How much do Arkansans know about the financial health of their county governments? ÒùÐÔÊÓÆµ law (ACA § 14-21-102(b)) requires that county governments make their financial status public only once per year, and only in the print newspaper with […]