From our perspective, with the appointment of White House Counsel Bob Bauer and Steven Croley to the Domestic Policy Counsel,... View Article
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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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I was traveling earlier this week when the Knight-Batten Awards were announced and so I wanted to add my two... View Article
Continue readingWhither Transparency
The New York Times this morning took the Administration to task because White House officials and lobbyists are meeting at... View Article
Continue readingOpen Government: idling in the driveway
Sigh. I feel like a disappointed parent. When the details of the Open Government Directive were announced early last December... View Article
Continue readingCelebrating Transparency Heroes on Ada Lovelace Day
What better celebration of Ada Lovelace Day – celebrating the achievements of women in technology – could we have than... View Article
Continue readingLet the Sun Shine In
This Sunshine Week was a particularly successful (and busy!) time for Sunlight. We helped usher in new transparency legislation, launched... View Article
Continue readingImprovements Needed For High Value Datasets On Data.gov
This morning a number of organizations — POGO, OMB Watch, CREW, National Security Archive, the Center for Democracy and Technology ... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Testimony for Senate Rules Committee
Today the Senate Rules Committee held the first of what’s likely to be a series of hearings on Capitol Hill... View Article
Continue readingCould This Be the Future?
A corporation runs for Congress? Great spoof makes a great point about the absurdity of the Citizens United decision last... View Article
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