Ways You Can Help the Transparency Movement
“One of the unsung heroes in the nation's capital is Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation”
The Washington Examiner
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Budget and Deficit Transparency
Sunlight Foundation - Earlier this week, the Senate passed an amendment to the unemployment extenders bill that would require the Secretary of the Senate to post information related to the debt effect ...
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The future of libraries
Sunlight Foundation - This article in the New Republic by Lisbet Rausing takes a look at the future of libraries and knowledge and the obstacles preventing scholarly knowledge and research from reaching ...
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The Transparency Campaign: Who We Are
Sunlight Foundation - A few weeks back, we asked members of our community to tell us a little about themselves: What are people looking for from our government? When it comes to transparency, ...
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Massa, Maf54 and the Ethics Committee
Sunlight Foundation - And now to totally contradict my previous post stating why no one needs to talk about tickle-monster Eric Massa. The House voted today 404-2 to recommend that the ...
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Earmark Season: Republicans up the ante on Democratic for-profit ban
Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group - Following the announcement by Rep. David Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Norm Dicks, incoming chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, that members can no ...
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Links after lunch
Sunlight Foundation - 1) Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and a member of her staff are being called before a grand jury in Michigan. Details are not known, but her son, former Detroit ...
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Lobbyists with big-name clients host fundraiser for Lungren
Sunlight Foundation's Political Party Time - Tonight at the Capitol Hill Club, a long list of lobbyists will host a fundraiser for Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif), who is in a competitive race for reelection ...
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How a grant grew from $35,000 to almost a million
Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group - In 2004, the National Park Service gave the George Wright Society, a Hancock, Mich.-based nonprofit that promotes preservation and understanding of natural and cultural resources, a $35,000 cooperative ...
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NYT: E-mails Indicate Deepening of Scandal Surrounding Sen. John Ensign
Sunlight Foundation - While everyone’s been running around writing about former congresstickler Eric Massa, Eric Lichtblau and Eric Lipton of the New York Times spent some time digging further into a congressional ...
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Introducing the Cycle of Transparency
Sunlight Foundation - Government transparency is that rarest of political phenomena — a great idea with support across the political spectrum and ...
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Links at Noon
Sunlight Foundation - 1) Roll Call prints a classic headline: “Earmark Advocates Skeptical of Ban.” Who would have thought that? 2) Bailed-out firms are getting back in the lobbying game. 3) ...
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Quantifying Data Quality
Sunlight Labs - You've already heard me complain about data quality -- how it's a bigger problem than most people realize, and a harder problem than many people hope. But let's not ...
