The following is an excerpt from an article by John Walters for GovPro Magazine:
When Susan Combs took office as Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts in January 2007, she posed a seemingly simple question: “Where does all the money go?”
Firmly believing that government must be fully accountable to the people it serves, she and her staff went to work using technology to enable transparency for the state. Within three days after taking office, her team had posted the expenses for the comptroller’s office on the Web. But they did not stop there.