Making Stone Soup: Establishing a New York State Local Government Data Center

Thought this was an interesting topic. It is sort of mind boggling to think there is no central database for NYS (or any other state for that matter).

It's 2013 and we still can't come up with a data retrieval standard for governments?

Maybe too many players (lawyers and lobbyists to name a few) have too much to loose if anything changed. Too much transparency?