HOW TO KEEP GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE

"multi-jurisdictional" authorities are emerging, to diminish, or remove policy-making authority from elected officials"

BLOGS..get ready for elections, and check out the candidates going for power and authority...Public should demand all candidates provide background checks, criminal record checks, credit checks. Do they hold any seats on boards Or commissions and what kind of record does the candidate hold ?
Other important considerations to ask, do they or any member of their family hold jobs with the Authority ? do they or any member of their family have any litigation pending...Forget any candidate who's family depends on tax dollars from property owners to maintain standards of living OR owns a business that contracts out for the Authority like a local vendor that fixes local municipality work..