Every year, we’re asked to approve another tax, bond, levy, fee, or measure. Before the vote, the promises are everywhere. Pamphlets in your mailbox. Campaigns tell you what will get fixed. Elected officials explain why this one is important.
Then election night comes and goes.
A few years later, someone is asking for more money, and I find myself wondering the same thing every time:
What happened to the last chunk of change we gave you?
I care about what happens in my community. I want better parks, safer streets, functioning public services, and leaders who can solve real problems. But I also got tired of feeling like there were only two options: blindly trust whatever I was told, or spend hours digging through council meetings, budget documents, audits, and public records trying to figure out what was actually going on.
Most people don’t have time for that.
So I built
a system.
Money Sleuth follows the trail after election day. Every investigation asks the same questions:
I dig through public records, budgets, audits, council packets, meeting transcripts, local reporting, and whatever other breadcrumbs I can find. Then I turn it into something you can read in a few minutes.
If a program works, voters should know. If it doesn’t, voters should know that too. The goal isn’t to catch people doing something wrong. The goal is to understand what happened after the promises were made.
No party script. No identity theater. No “trust me.”
Just receipts.
Because the next time we’re asked to vote on another measure, another tax, or another bond, we shouldn’t have to rely on campaign slogans, Facebook arguments, or whatever our loudest friend is yelling about that week.
We should be able to look at the record and decide for ourselves.
If keeping civic finances transparent, our public officials accountable, and getting real results sounds like your kind of thing — join me.
We’ll keep the receipts together.