New York State Employees Online
July 31st, 2008 | Author: Tamara Thompson
The Empire Center for New York State Policy has begun to build databases to make New York government more transparent. Just today, the Center’s project, SeeThruNY unveiled a database of names and salaries for more than 263,000 employees of New York’s state government. Search their other databases of New York government contracts and expenditures.
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[...] blogs related to [www.seethroughny.net] SeeThroughNY.net) What to Do About Those Rising Construction Costs? (The Real Estate) Mayor, Speaker Ask Nonprofit to Form Green Codes Taskforce. (Green Buildings Council, New York Chapter) New Business Provides Health Care for Uninsured Via Internet.(Quote from : ?Week’s Best on the Web?) s new SeeThroughNY website yesterday but the link somehow got mixed up and sent people to the “dev” site used by the developer of the site. Still not sure it happened and yesterday’s posting has been fixed but here’s the proper link. (Quote from : ?SeeThrough one more time?) Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau’s spokeswoman, Barbara Thompson, is retiring after working for him for three decades. The Empire Center put state contracts, pork spending and state employee salaries on-line. (Here’s the link to the site, “SeeThroughNY.” The ‘09 mayoral hopefuls say they’d like NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has led polls of the mayor’s race but says he doesn’t want to run, to keep the job he has. The House (Quote from : ?News Of The Day?) Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau’s spokeswoman, Barbara Thompson, is retiring after working for him for three decades. The Empire Center put state contracts, pork spending and state employee salaries on-line. (Here’s the link to the site, “SeeThroughNY.” The ‘09 mayoral hopefuls say they’d like NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has led polls of the mayor’s race but says he doesn’t want to run, to keep the job he has. The House (Quote from : ?News Of The Day?) database of names and salaries for more than 263,000 employees of New York’s state government. Search their other databases of New York government contracts and expenditures. (Quote from : ?New York State Employees Online?) [...]
[...] blogs related to [www.seethroughny.net] database of names and salaries for more than 263,000 employees of New York’s state government. Search their other databases of New York government contracts and expenditures. (Quote from : ?New York State Employees Online?) From the how much is too much category, the “conservative” Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (see their Wikipedia entry) under the guise of the “Empire Center For New York State Policy1” has published SeeThroughNY. You can go there and faithfully study every public employee’s pay. You can search by name or by agency. This is a trend among people posing as open government/good government types. Ohio went so far as to publish every public employee(Quote from : ?Information access overload?) From the how much is too much category, the “conservative” Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (see their Wikipedia entry) under the guise of the “Empire Center For New York State Policy1” has published SeeThroughNY. You can go there and faithfully study every public employee’s pay. You can search by name or by agency. This is a trend among people posing as open government/good government types. Ohio went so far as to publish every public employee(Quote from : ?Information access overload?) Bluey Blog Capitol Confidential NY Libertarian Blogwatch Poppin’s Ponderings Porkbusters Reason Online SeeThroughNY Slashdot Something Awful Sunlight Foundation The Open House Project WashingtonWatch (Quote from : ?CNY Snakepit?) SeeThroughNY.net, puts online “searchable databases of the entire payroll of state government employees, operating expenses by both houses of the New York State Legislature, the Legislature’s pork-barrel ‘member items’ spending for 2008-09, and current teachers’(Quote from : ?Seeing Through New York?) [...]