Maybe this is the start of something big in government. In an in an attempt to better connect to the... View Article
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As Kenneth Vogel of Politico notes this morning: Anyone seeking copies of the financial disclosure reports recently filed by members... View Article
Continue readingA Mandated Database: 16 Years Late
Public Citizen reports that a federal database will soon go online that will give car buyers information about individual cars... View Article
Continue readingLTE: NYTimes Executive Branch Ethics: Let the Light Shine In
Letter to the Editor at the New York Times this morning. It’s worth posting in full. Published: January 28, 2009... View Article
Continue reading‘Direct to Constituent’ Communications
Mark Hannah has a thoughtful post about how the Obama administration and Congress are adopting what he terms “Direct to... View Article
Continue readingXML is Not Enough
David Robinson, associate director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, has an interesting post at the center’s Freedom to... View Article
Continue readingProPublica Graphs the Stimulus
ProPublica has a cool interactive graph on “The Stimulus Plan: Where the Money Would Go.” The graph tracks how the... View Article
Continue readingOpen CRS Document Upload
Yesterday, Open CRS, a project of the Center for Democracy and Technology (and Sunlight grantee), posted links to 47 newly... View Article
Continue readingLast Call: ProPublica Prizes for Investigative Governance
ProPublica is making a final call for their Prizes for Investigative Governance, a way to recognize the most important and... View Article
Continue readingUSA.gov Embraces RSS
ReadWriteWeb reported last week that USA.gov, the official online portal to the federal government, has built a central repository of... View Article
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