Sometimes when an idea is good once, it’s better twice- which is the case with Nevada’s new transparency websites.

The Nevada Policy Research Institute launched TransparentNevada.com this week, which includes searchable county and state financial data such as purchasing contracts, budgets, government employee salaries, lobbying expenses. The site also includes some departmental expenditures (education, transportation, and Health and Human Services), and a blog.

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons hopped on the transparency bandwagon, forcing transparency by executive order last March. Nevada Open Government should be up and running soon, and will include searchable budgets, expenditures, contracts, and grants. If you go to the site now, you are greeted with links to miscellaneous financial data and reports.

These two websites will hopefully mean double trouble for the state’s tax-eaters and rent-seekers.

Category: No Taxation Without Information, Transparency Campaigns, Transparency Legislation