The editors of the Richmond Times-Dispatch had some praise for their home city’s recent movements toward greater transparency – and Richmond’s moves should be praised…and followed up with even more transparency, but something else caught my eye in the opening paragraph of the piece:
Local government websites tend to combine two shortcomings — difficulty of navigation and paucity of information — to a depressing degree. The result is a lack of transparency that thwarts citizen engagement. (This is one reason we continue to press for the publication of public notices in newspapers.)
How nice of the RTD to take the thank-you-God-that-I’m-not-a-sinner role.
Of course, the first thing I did upon hearing this was look to the RTD‘s website to find the public notices that the editors are so fond publishing.
So far, my efforts have been plagued by the combination of two shortcomings: difficulty of navigation and paucity of information.
You might want to get cracking on that, RTD, lest those of us citizens who are interested in engaging local government become…depressed.
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