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April 2008

  • Flypmedia - Best Congress Money Can Buy

    Senior fellow, Bill Allison is interviewed by Flyp Media, an online current affairs magazine, for a piece about money's influence in Washington. Bill discusses what changes Congress has made since the Abramoff scandal. Bill's video interview is on page 6.

  • Albany Times Union - Gillibrand releases earmarks list

    SARATOGA SPRINGS -- U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Greenport, published a list of projects Wednesday she hopes will be paid for by federal tax dollars.

  • North Gate Radio KALX 90.7 - The Edible Earmark

    Senior fellow Bill Allison comments on earmarks on USC-Berkeley radio program Norther Gate in a piece about Congresswoman Barbara $250,000 earmark to the Chez Panisse Foundation for its Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

     

  • Houston Chronicle - City opens books to online scrutiny with new Web site

    Asphalt streets, police cruisers, storm sewers - all obvious examples of how the city spends your tax money.

  • Hearing Progressive Voices - John Wonderlich: The Sunlight Foundation

    John Wonderlich is the Program Director for the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington DC-based organization that applies a "let's throw it against the wall and see what sticks" approach to using technology to make government more transparent and accountable. Sunlight is best known for projects like the Punch Clock Campaign, an effort to convince Members of Congress to post their daily schedules online, and Public Markup, a recently-launched experiment on collaboratively edited legislation. John, a former sales manager in Pennsylvania, came to his job at Sunlight via an usual route. His dogged blogging on Daily Kos in the wake of the 2006 Democratic sweep of the House and Senate caught the attention of some on Capitol Hill, which in turn caught the attention of Sunlight. Now settled in Washington, John heads up the Open House Project, an attempt to drag Capitol Hill into the 21st century. John spends his days explaining how setting information free is the key to saving our democracy.

  • NPR Talk of the Nation - Online Nation Expects More from Its 'E-Government'

    This week, millions of Americans will check their math and their Internet connections and file their taxes online. Are the Feds doing everything they can to provide e-government tools? In a recent op-ed on Politico.com, Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry make the case for why Americans should demand more from government Web sites

  • American Public Media Future Tense - From blog to bill

    The Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for more openness in government, is in the middle of writing the Transparency in Government Act of 2008. The proposal seeks to force Congress and the executive branch to make more information available to the public over the Internet - information about contracts, congressional travel, fundraising and more. But the proposal isn't taking a normal course. It's taking shape online, where the public is invited to comment.

  • Austin-American Statesman - Public asked to shape open-government bill

    There is nothing unusual about an open-government group advocating new legislation that would shine a light on the secretive ways of Congress and the executive branch.

  • Yahoo News - Bill Moyers' Remarks on the Occasion of the 5th Annual Ron Ridenhour Prizes

    Thank you very much, Sissy Farenthold, for those very generous words, spoken like one Texan to another -- extravagantly. Thank you for the spirit of kinship. I could swear that I sensed our good Molly Ivins standing there beside you.

  • Austin American-Statesman - Sunlight Foundation’s new tool rivals K Street lobbyists

    The Sunlight Foundation is proposing a bill that would shine the light on the secretive ways that Congress and the executive branch operate.

  • Austin American-Statesman - Hutchison lauds earmark recommendations but hides her own requests

    U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, yesterday hailed a series of recommendations from a group of Republicans working to reform the earmarking process. Earmarks are tucked into large spending bills and direct federal agencies to spend money on specific projects in specific locations, and critics say the process allows members of Congress to quietly steer tax dollars to their contributors or favorite lobbyists.

  • PC Magazine - The Tech Policy Summit

    Last week I attended the second annual Tech Policy Summit, which is held in the heart of Hollywood just steps away from the Kodak Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The Summit has become quite an important event. It's where Silicon Valley and Washington policy wonks get together to discuss the role of government in tech-related issues and try to find common ground when it comes to subjects like copyrights, visas for foreign workers, the digital divide, Internet expansion and adoptions, and others.