Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Public officials and employees love transparency in the abstract. In reality: not so much. Transparency in government is a crowd-pleasing election promise that gets set aside in practice. It happens in part because openness takes effort. It takes a daily commitment by public entities to provide access to records, to inform the public as to what is going on, and to allow participation. Transparency also invites scrutiny, and not all public officials and employees want that. Open government also suffers because public...
Good legislation should address real issues of importance to all New Mexicans. When the current legislative session started, New Mexicans were hopeful a dose of sunshine would filter through the Roundhouse. Recent actions in two key Senate committees are damaging steps in curtailing the public’s scrutiny of those individuals who apply for jobs as school superintendents, city and county managers and other high-level government jobs. Good legislation should consider the desires of the majority of constituents – especially whe...
