Podcasts

For The Record

For The Record is an occasional podcast featuring found and curated sound by and for people interested in the future of government and governance.  Recognizing that sound bites are an insufficient and inefficient way to explore important ideas, FTR lets people speak to the record, in their own words.

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A couple of older podcasts

The Candy Man versus the Tax Man

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Candy became subject to the sales tax in Washington state on June 1 as part of a package to raise revenues in an effort to span a $2.8 billion budget shortfall. Candy is an easy target.  But a long time confectionary man emerged to defend his craft against the new levy on public policy grounds.

Transparency: The Way the   Public's Business Get Done

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After the initial rounds of ARRA reporting, online check books and data.gov-inspired transparency experimentation, where do we go from here? Can we harvest the behavioral changes that come with transparency.