Should Taxpayers Pay Twice For Weather Data?

theodp writes "Thanks to O.M.B. Circular A-130, taxpayers now enjoy free access to SEC, Patent Office, and IRS data over the Internet. Now the Bush administration must decide whether to order the National Weather Service to make taxpayer-funded weather readings freely available on the Net, ignoring complaints from an industry trade group that doing so violates pre-Internet era agreements."

Comments

As Taxpayers, We Already Paid for It

[dmarx]

Taxpayer funded information should be freely avaiable to every citizen. We have paid for this information with our taxes. We should not have to pay twice.

Re:Actually

[dan g]

Now called ForecastFox.