Friday, February 12, 2010

Stanford Social Iinnovation

http://www.ssireview.org/
A nonprofit and foundation-oriented periodical with strategies, tools, and ideas

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

CBO warns of deficits

Congressional budget warns of huge budget deficitis in this Time article that has links to other relevant materials about the federal situation.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1958671,00.html

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Illinois searches foreign buyers to support pension debt

It appears that this is aimed to institutional investors....and the debt is taxable, not tax exempt.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=munievents&sid=ah3FJPW4QXG8

Saturday, January 30, 2010

New data sets available

for the public are now open, aiding increased transparency http://www.data.gov/

Illinois pension woes

This article is describing the vast underfunded Illinois pension system.

http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2010/02/pension.html

Monday, January 18, 2010

Combat fraud, waste and abuse

http://fmcenter.aicpa.org/NR/rdonlyres/4549A0AA-E3C2-4F84-9D32-14C06EBF0AA9/0/GovtAcctBriefDec09linked.pdf

AICPA publishes a brief on internal controls for government. Notice that the sidebar of this pdf file also has links to other resources.