News 8 Austin: "New Web site lets Texans see where tax money goes"

"Texas Budget Source.com...has some answers as to where the money goes."

Dallas Morning News: "Texas Budget Source Web site lets citizens see how tax dollars are spent"

"Want to know how much Richardson ISD spent with Xerox last school year? How much does the Dallas police mounted patrol cost? How much did Cedar Hill ISD spend on zoo field trips last year?

For answers to these and other government spending questions, check out a new Web site designed to help citizens get budget information for the state, cities, counties and school districts."

National Review Online's Media Blog: "The Real News on Government Spending"

"The real news isn't in the newspapers, it's in the checking-account records. ...Every state should have a project like this."

TheNextRight.com: "Texas-Style Transparency"

"As one of the leading states in the area of government transparency, Texas is already a step ahead of most states when it comes to giving citizens access to information. But what the state lacked was a single source to find what's publicly available. Enter the Texas Public Policy Foundation."