Oklahoma Watchdog is operated by Andrew W. Ohio Watchdog is working to bring equality and justice to people in the state of Ohio. It is a project of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy in New Hampshire.īosse ran for New Hampshire's fictional "00 Congressional District" after the Watchdog reporters broke the story about the "Phantom Congressional Districts". New Hampshire Watchdog is written and edited by Grant Bosse. Scarantino was the first in the nation to report about the congressional district stimulus errors on November 16, 2009. It is a project of the Rio Grande Foundation. New Mexico Watchdog is led by Jim Scarantino, its editor and investigative reporter, to accomplish the mission of shedding transparency light on New Mexico. The Nevada Policy Research Institute sponsors the investigative journalism that keeps Nevada residents up on the latest in transparency and corruption news. Nebraska Watchdog is a nonpartisan news website dedicated to investigative and political reporting affiliated and funded in part by the nonprofit Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity and Pete Ricketts, founder of Drakon LLC, an asset management firm based in Omaha, Nebraska. Montana residents can look to the Montana Policy Institute, which runs the Montana Watchdog.
The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota provides Minnesota citizens with the independent news and investigative journalism to keep them informed. The Mackinac Center houses the investigative watchdog work for the state of Michigan. The Maryland Public Policy Institute does the investigative journalistic watchdog work for Maryland. The Pelican Institute oversees Louisiana's citizen journalist watchdog site. They also concentrate on political corruption and actions going against free-market principles and core values of the United States and Kansas constitutions. Glynn and Paul Soutar write for Kansas Watchdog, focusing on inefficiencies of government and government waste. “For the last five years as the Kansas Meadowlark I’ve attempted to publish political money stories, nonprofit stories, and other information often ignored by the mainstream press,” Glynn wrote in his final post on the former blog.
The site is co-sponsored by the Kansas Policy Institute (formerly Flint Hills Center for Public Policy). As of February 25, 2010, Franklin Center's posts will be on Google News.Įarl Glynn moved his blog "Kansas Meadowlark" to the Kansas gadfly project Kansas Watchdog. 's editor and investigative reporter, Bill McMorris, was the first in the nation to provide an outline for all 440 phantom Congressional Districts that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan's website created.Īs of February 16, 2010, became certified to appear on Google News. Watchdog reporters were the first to report the national story about 's missteps in creating "Phantom Congressional Districts." Many reporters in the network work at nonprofits in individual states, so the Franklin Center doesn’t edit all of the material.
Some states have their own website on the Watchdog domain, while others publish the states' information on their organizations' websites. It is the brainchild of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. Together, the sites are a nationwide effort to give citizens and elected representatives solid, factual reporting on issues relevant and significant to the nation. is a network of state-based watchdog reporters keeping an eye on government corruption and transparency that was begun in September 2009.
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