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Behind Open Doors


We want to know what our government is up to.If officials do bad things or just extremely clumsy money-wasting things, we need to know. Then we can try to do something about it. It’s called oversight.Oversight requires transparency. If officials hide their activities it gets difficult to learn what they’re up to. I don’t say we should be told secrets the public unveiling of which would compromise our national security. But almost everything else is fair game. [Read More]

The Sammies

See who won the Sammies!

Our 2007 Sammie Awards were a huge success. Check out our winners, and stay tuned for how you can enter the upcoming 2008 Sammies!  [Read More]

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Building Partnerships: Sam Adams in Chicago 

March 6, 2007


On March 1, the Sam Adams Alliance joined the Heartland Institute and the Cato Institute to sponsor a book signing with Michael Tanner, author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution. More than 60 people from the Chicago area gathered over pizza and beer to discuss the current state of the political system and hear Tanner speak about his book.