State view: Access to details would make local government budgets easier to trim

Last week I wrote a letter to the lawmakers who sponsored a great idea that was included in the tax omnibus bill vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton last week. The great idea was requiring cities — and, I hope, all units of government, including school boards, eventually — to post four years of budgets by expenditure type on their websites.

By: Kim Crockett, Duluth News Tribune