When newly elected Wyoming State Auditor Kristi Racines produced six full years of state spending records earlier this month, the seas parted in red-state Wyoming. Racines's action capped a five-year fight by our organization at OpenTheBooks.com to break open the Wyoming state checkbook. Together, with our legal partners, the Equality State Taxpayers Association of Wyoming, we sued the state of Wyoming in district court to enforce open records law. Last year, $1.2 billion of $4.6 billion in state payments flowed to 5,614 entities located outside Wyoming. Nearly 600 of those vendors received more than $1 million and 90 vendors received at least $10 million.

Source: Forbes February 28, 2019 12:00 UTC