Some thoughts on the strategy of retiring projects and how we look back at our work on the new tools page.
Continue readingGot some love for Sunlight?
It’s probably not necessary to remind you what semi-national holiday is today. From heart shaped donuts at the Krispy Kreme... View Article
Continue readingOrszag to Citigroup?
Bloomberg.com is reporting that Peter Orszag, formerly director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration, is in talks with Citigroup to join its investment banking division. Orszag wouldn't be the first former government official to land at Citigroup, as our friends at the Center for Responsive Politics show.
The Bloomberg article makes for interesting Poligraft fodder.
Continue readingDaily Disclosures
A roundup of what we’re noticing in the Reporting Group as we dig into government data and disclosures: By the... View Article
Continue readingPoligrafting the News: Tech CEOs and the Obama Administration
Politico has an excellent round-up of the many Silicon Valley executives who orbit around the White House giving advice on... View Article
Continue readingResearching Shelby’s earmarks using Poligraft
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., requested
earmarks for at least ten companies that have been donors to the
lawmaker in this election cycle. Five of those companies have been
long-term contributors to Shelby.
Shelby, who is on the Senate
appropriations committee, requested more than $54.3 million for these
ten companies and has received more than $69,000 in campaign funds from
their employees and PACs since 2008, a quick analysis of his online
earmark requests using Sunlight's newest tool Poligraft.com shows.
Employees
of Radiance Technologies, for which Shelby requested $5 million in
earmarks, have given the lawmaker more ...
Building Poligraft
I'm happy to announce the newest project from Sunlight Labs, Poligraft. A utility built on top of Transparency Data, Poligraft takes in a block of text, parses it for entities like politicians and corporations, and returns a result set representing the political influence contained in that text. I won't dwell on the features -- read Ellen Miller's announcement blog post and the about page for more information. What I want to talk about instead is the development process.
Continue readingPoligrafting the news: Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt
The New York Times has an excellent piece detailing the complicated financial deal that the Denver Board of Education entered... View Article
Continue readingPoligraft Brings Politics and Influences Together in Just One Click
Today Sunlight is launching Poligraft, what I think is one of the coolest, most revealing and most interesting tools of... View Article
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