March 17, 2010
Each year, on the anniversary of James Madison’s birth, we celebrate Sunshine Week, a national observance of the importance of open government and freedom of information. James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights and our fourth President, stressed the importance of citizen access to information, saying: A popular government without popular information, or the [...]
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September 21, 2008
Recent discussions among Westford Taxpayers Association members raised a number of interesting questions about local government. Everyone seemed to have an opinion about the cost and size of government, but we found ourselves lacking the facts. We decided we needed definitive information, and that’s what this article presents. Looking at Westford’s annual budgets, it wasn’t [...]
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