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Mike Pickett is Chairman and CEO of Onvia, a Seattle-based, NASDAQ-traded company that tracks the expenditures of more than 89,000 federal, state, local and educational agencies. Like the Obama administration and Congress, Onvia shares a common belief in the power of transparency and accountability, and recently launched the web site www.Recovery.org as its contribution to bring unprecedented levels to recovery spending.

www.Recovery.org presents real-time information that allows businesses, taxpayers, and government agencies to track American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending in each state, county and city. Onvia has an explicit goal of providing every business, regardless of size, equal access to the projects associated with the recovery efforts for free.

Mike is an expert on government spending and has been five-time winner of Computer Reseller News' award as one of the 25 most influential executives in the high technology industry.

Blog Entries by Mike Pickett

What We Do Know About the Recovery

Posted August 7, 2009 | 10:27:14 (EST)

Vice President Biden recently penned an op-ed entitled "What you might not know about the recovery" in which he explained the process of the stimulus spending and the efforts undertaken by the Administration to promote both job creation and transparency. The website Recovery.Gov, managed by the Obama Administration,...

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Recovery.gov Not Keeping Up with Stimulus Spending

Posted April 17, 2009 | 16:20:02 (EST)

President Obama held a widely-covered press conference this week touting the 2000th transportation project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And Vice President Biden said, "The Recovery Act is being implemented with speed, transparency and accountability." With this kind of press coverage, one might believe that the...

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In Order to Form a More Perfect Union: Recovery Act Transparency

Posted April 8, 2009 | 14:45:38 (EST)

As soon as I heard President Obama vow to track every dime of the stimulus spending I knew that he had committed the Federal government to a huge undertaking, one that would likely prove impossible given the very compressed timeframe in which the administration must move these funds into our...

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