Transparency Talk Radio

03/15/2011

The latest episode of the podcast is now available online for your listening pleasure. Our featured guest this week is FOI advocate Charles Davis, who talked about how the Utah state legislature has rolled back the clock on open government in that state. And be sure to become a fan of Repeal Utah House Bill 477 here on Facebook.

The recent events in Utah -- where state legislators have rolled back decades of open government advances -- are the topic of our show airing during National Sunshine Week. We talk with Prof. Charles Davis nationally known freedom of information expert about whats happened in Utah. Mar 15 2011

02/08/2011

The latest show is now available online for those of you who couldn't listen live today!

On this weeks episode well talk about the problems people face having to pay to get access to public information including copying charges labor and research time overhead costs programming costs and other such fees. Many in government wish they could charge more but open government advocates myself

02/07/2011

There's a move afoot (again) by local governments here in Texas to allow them to charge up-front costs for access to public information. We'll talk about that and other silliness regarding the costs of public access to government information on our next episode of Transparency Talk Radio tomorrow at 3 Eastern/2 Central on BlogTalkRadio.com -- and you can listen as a podcast later if you can't listen in live.

On this weeks episode well talk about the problems people face having to pay to get access to public information including copying charges labor and research time overhead costs programming costs and other such fees. Many in government wish they could charge more but open government advocates myself

02/02/2011

Public officials' emails, expunged court cases and other open government issues in the news were our topic of this week's show. Take a listen!

Tune in for our next episode of Transparency Talk Radio a live Internet radio show/podcast on open government. Feb 01 2011

01/25/2011

The latest episode of Transparency Talk Radio is now available for your listening pleasure. Our guest this week is Edwin Bender, executive director of FollowTheMoney.org, who talks about campaign finance, transparency and the cool stuff on their site.

Join us as Edwin Bender executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics -- theyre followthemoney.org -- talks with us about their work to make state-level campaign finance more transparent in all 50 states. Jan 25 2011

01/18/2011

As promised, here are our links from our Jan. 18 show (which just aired) so y'all listening on your iPods can find those sites, including Sunshine Review. And please come back to see us next week -- both for Transparency Talk Radio and for TrentTV -- next Tuesday.

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01/18/2011

We're on the air now live!

A show about the importance of government transparency and issues in freedom of information and public access.

01/13/2011

Jennifer Peebles hosts Transparency Talk Radio in January 2011 from the Texas Watchdog offices in Houston.

01/12/2011

Today's episode is online now: What state legislatures can do to improve transparency. Listen through blogtalkradio.com or iTunes -- you can even download it to your iPod!

With legislatures in many states convening or reconvening Transparency Talk Radio discusses ways state lawmakers could improve transparency. Jan 11 2011

01/05/2011

The audio is now available online for this week's episode of Transparency Talk Radio. Listen through your Web browser by following this link to our page on BlogTalkRadio.com, or download the audio through iTunes to play on your PC or on your iPod!

Lets talk about what we can do to improve government transparency this year. Jan 05 2011

12/21/2010

A big thank-you to Scott St. Clair for taking time to talk with us today about his fight to get safety records from the Washington state ferry system! If you didn't hear the broadcast live today, follow the link to listen online or download the episode to your iPod. And we'll be back on Jan. 4 with more transparency talk!

Scott St. Clair of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation talks about his fight to get access to records pertaining to safety issues in Washington states ferry system -- a fight that has drawn support from transparency advocates and other journalists across the nation. Dec 21 2010

12/14/2010

Audio is now available online for our show/podcast today with Laura Frank about open government and "e-waste." Listen via BlogTalkRadio.com or download the file into your iPod via iTunes!

Laura Frank nationally known investigative reporter and executive director of Colorado-based I-News will be our guest today. Shell talk about I-News most recent investigation which probed where e-waste -- recycled computers and the like -- really wind up and how public records and public information