State employee salaries and benefits are now available for the public to view. Despite a two-year pay freeze, average state employee salaries and benefits have increased faster tha[...]
On September 20, 2011, at a conference headlined by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, the Manhattan Institute presented the first comprehensive national [...]
Earlier this year the Montana Policy Institute launched www.OpenGovMT.org that allows people to view public information on state employee salaries and school financial data. The we[...]
A study released today by the Montana Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Bozeman, shows that public transit systems in the state of Montana are both more costly th[...]
A local environmental task force has been assembled to make recommendations for emission controls that could potentially impact private businesses and area households.[...]
Montana Policy Institute, a non-partisan policy research institute, is joining the statewide debate on spending transparency with a new statewide educational media campaign.[...]