This was a landmark year for local open data — take a look back at some of the advances that were made.
Continue readingSanta shunning the NRA? Follow November fundraising returns with Influence Explorer’s Real-Time FEC
The National Rifle Association submitted an underwhelming fundraising report as the Friday deadline for monthly filing campaign committees approaches. Follow the action on Influence Explorer’s Real-Time FEC.
Continue readingPolitwoops 2013: the year’s top politicians and their best deletions from Twitter
As the year winds down and Washington retreats to spend the holidays with family and friends, let's look back at the many gifts politicians left for Politwoops in 2013 as they deleted messages once shared eagerly with their followers.
Continue readingSunlight’s Year in Review: 2013 was pretty great
2013 was a busy year for the Sunlight Foundation. The past 12 months were so jam packed that we couldn't contain everything to just a blog post (or email or video). Check out Sunlight's 2013 year in review.
Continue reading12 Days of Open Data to Get You Through the New Year
Agencies are still inventorying their data holdings but it's already clear that President Barack Obama’s open data executive order is cluing the public into lots of information that wasn’t previously available or easily accessible. In the holiday spirit, Sunlight has put together 12 days of data sets. When you're not skiiing, try (data) diving!
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Portals, Priorities, and Standards: Taking the Long Road to Open Data in Utah
Jason Williams shares his experience as part of a working group on Utah's GRAMA law where his team recommended new Open Data Policy guidelines.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 12/20/2013
Keep reading for the year's last look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including potential IT procurement changes, accurate bill prediction, and open data in Sacramento.
Continue readingProjects that Hack using Sunlight APIs
In the past few months we have had the pleasure of partnering with Hack Reactor, an honors-level, immersive coding academy in San Francisco. Check out what their students did with Sunlight's APIs.
Continue readingFOIA Santa Comes Early to Sunlight!
Recently, Sunlight filed our first FOIA lawsuit against the GSA to get 14 years of data - we got almost everything we wanted, but some info was withheld. Now we've got all the data - and no black redaction bars!
Continue readingWant to buy a machine gun without a background check? Federal law allows it — for now
Gun rights advocates are trying to keep the federal government from closing a loophole that allows purchasers of heavy weaponry to avoid background checks by transferring their guns to a legal trust.
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