Welcome to Polegreen Dispatches

Hello!

Welcome to Polegreen Dispatches! My name is Ben, and I live in Hanover County. Our local government isn’t used to and doesn’t like having light shone into their proceedings, and so I want to do exactly that. What is going on with the Board of Supervisors, the School Board, the Planning Commission, land use, development, zoning, and so and so forth. Up front, I am a progressive and so everything I write will necessarily come from that perspective.

I am going to focus on public documents, because that is my background and things can be happening in them without folks knowing. For example, our first series of posts is about the Statement of Economic Interest, a form that is filed by all of the members of the Board of Supervisors and the School Board, in addition to the members of the House of Delegates, State Senate, and federal offices.

So how do you find a Statement of Economic Interest? How do you read one? Well, follow me:

• How to request a Statement of Economic Interest in Virginia

They’re our documents, so we should be able to read them!