When the leading candidates for D.C. mayor and City Council chairman met with The Examiner‘s editorial board recently, they were each asked if they would support measures to post D.C. government’s check register online, so that residents can see every expenditure by every department, including the District of Columbia Public Schools. To their credit, Mayor Adrian Fenty, Council Chairman Vincent Gray, chairman candidate Vincent Orange and Council member Kwame Brown all unhesitatingly said yes. So, no matter which of these candidates wins the Sept. 14 primary and the general election in November, D.C. residents should be able to look forward to a new era of transparency in the District’s governance that would have been unthinkable just four years ago.
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