| It was a good day for getting the goods on the state budget. While the Manhattan Institute had produced a "pork portrait" spreadsheet a while back by winnowing through the thousands of pages of budget bills, it lacked some basic info-- like, who sponsored the member item, and the address of the member item recipient. And, it looked like a bunch of Assembly member items were missing, maybe...
Today, the Assembly released a text version of their member items, with more detail. Liam Arbetman of Common Cause (yes, the same hero who will email you the details when you sign up to take the bus to Albany next Monday!) quickly converted it to spreadsheet format, and made it available here.
Then, to make it just a really-great day for the number-crunching fools among us, Fiscal Policy Institute shared an excellent spreadsheet on Education Aid-- better by far than the previously -available one. The spreadsheet filename-- "Mauro1"-- says it all: Frank, you are still #1. You can get it here.
Isn't it nice when geeks share the goods so that we can understand our state government? |
