The push for enacting publicly financed voter owned elections in New York is growing every day. On Saturday, the New York Times made their opinion very clear: A strong ethics package would be a start, but not nearly enough. New York also needs a fair campaign financing system, including public financing — the only way [...]

Earlier this week, The Buffalo News joined the majority of New Yorkers in calling for voter-owned publicly financed elections.  The last line of their editorial, I found to be, especially helpful in understanding why voter-owned publicly financed elections are crucial to good governance: There’s little hope of changing how the state spends taxpayers’ money until [...]

As New Yorkers push once again for voter owned public financing of elections, it may be helpful to take a look at how political financing is carried out by our Scandinavian neighbors. In Sweden and Iceland, for instance, there is public funding of elections through state contributions to the political parties. In truth, political parties [...]