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your taxes go?
Every year your town spends your money. That spending is public record buried in documents almost nobody reads. We read them, analyze every line, and publish what deserves a question.
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Budget Watch is an independent research project that analyzes municipal budgets in towns where no local newspaper exists to do it. We produce structured, cited, fact-based reports, not opinions, and publish them for free.
More about us →We obtain the official budget
Every report starts with the town's own published document: no leaks, no anonymous sources.
We run structured analysis
Ten sections covering everything from fund balance to pension liability to transparency scores.
We publish questions, not verdicts
Every flag becomes a neutral question for the public to ask, and every figure is cited to its source.
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