House Republicans are today launching a new site, America Speaking Out. The site provides a forum for a broad, public... View Article
Continue readingBig Day for Earmark Transparency
Today’s a big day for earmark transparency. Bill Allison just wrote up some reactions to today’s coming Senate bill, the... View Article
Continue readingUS House Adds Live Web Video
In a big step forward for public access online, the US House launched live streaming video today, on the new... View Article
Continue readingLobbyists On Twitter
Saturday’s Washington Post features a story about lobbyists on twitter. The story points out the growth of telecom lobbyists on... View Article
Continue readingFinancial Reform Bill has a Small Transparency Win
The Financial Reform bill contains a minor concession for transparency that we called for last year — a small step... View Article
Continue readingWhite House Announces Leading Practices
CTO Aneesh Chopra blogged an announcement yesterday laying out the Administration’s next steps after the April 7th milestone. The Adminstration’s... View Article
Continue readingAgency Compliance with Data Requirement Mixed
I wrote yesterday that we’d be going through agencies’ new open government plans to evaluate their compliance with the data-related... View Article
Continue readingAgency Plans and Data
As I wrote earlier today, Sunlight is going to be particularly focused on data transparency in the new Open Government... View Article
Continue readingAnticipating Agency Plans
Today is April 7th, one of the major deadlines set in the Open Government Directive. It’s a big day for... View Article
Continue readingFCC Endorsing Open Government
The Federal Communications Commission, in fulfilling their obligation to create broadband plan, is required (pdf) to lay out “a plan... View Article
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