Recent Updates

• A Citizen’s Fight, How Transparent Payson Held Power Accountable
  In the dusty folds of rural Arizona, a small town became the epicenter of one of the most significant battles for local democracy in the state’s recent history.  Not many people noticed at first.  But that changed. Transparent Payson was born […]
• With Gratitude and Resolve
  To the citizens of Payson and all those who stood with us There comes a moment in every civic movement when the dust settles.  When the courtrooms go quiet, the signs are taken down, and the social feeds slow.  That moment is here for Transparent […]
• Town Legal Platitudes and Cow Puckery
  It must be a something; it can’t be a nothing. We apologize for this very long post.  The process is nine months in the making.  The ongoing saga of a records request we have previously touched on in What is the Town of Payson Hiding and […]
• An Open Letter to the Payson Roundup and Council Member Nossek
  The Roundup published an opinion by Council Member Nossek that took exception to voters’ rights.  Mr. Nossek targeted his address at me.  The Nossek opinion was removed from publication.  The opinion was on the heels of an article by Mr. Aleshire […]
• Payson Town Legal, Same Old Same
  A funny thing happened when Mr. Jon Paladini separated from the Town of Payson.  We researched new Town Legal, Ms. Christina Werther, to see if there would be a change in approach regarding citizens’ rights.  Based on her position in a […]
• Representative Democracy – Don’t let them fool you.
  The Payson Roundup recently had an article discussing a Tea Party meeting where Transparent Payson was a guest.  The Roundup gives Transparent Payson too much credit.  “You can explain a lot about Payson town politics at the moment by […]