…The database won praise from Carl Graham, CEO of the Montana Policy Institute, which had been pushing the state to create online sites showing both expenses and salaries. Hi[...]
…”The state website came as a complete surprise, albeit a nice one,” said Carl Graham, whose organization, Montana Policy Institute, (MPI) fought long and hard to[...]
25 Mar 2013
The state has finally put a checkbook and employee salaries online. Good for them. And I mean that. It’s a great first step and Governor Bullock and his new administration de[...]
11-12 Tapping Capitalism V5comp slides Take a look at the link that’s right above this post. It’s a pdf of three state comparison slides that we’ve been using to [...]
14 Jan 2013
A total of 50 state legislators and approximately 130 people met this weekend to discuss free market principles for Montana. The two-day event was hosted by the Montana Policy Inst[...]
While MPI simply presented data provided by the state and cannot independently verify whether it’s “flawed,” it’s also true that the data would be much more useful if it contained [...]
21 Jul 2012
Dont Shoot the Messenger on Pay Data[...]
20 Jul 2012
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[...]
11 Jul 2012
$400 billion in waste at the federal level due to program duplication. We could do the same analysis at the state level and save $$$ millions.[...]
15 Jun 2012
Two recently released studies have dealt Montana disappointing grades. The first comes a report card put out by StateIntegrity.org, where Montana received the overall grade of a &#[...]
21 Mar 2012
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