With 2014 coming to close, it's time to look back at the highlights from a hearty year of deleted tweets from politicians archived on Politwoops.
Continue readingSunlight welcomes new board members
The Sunlight Foundation today announced that Sue Gardner, Allison Fine, Mark Horvit and Daniel X. O’Neil would join its board of directors.
Continue readingOpen Government in Canada: Ambitious plan yet to be implemented
Sunlight took a closer look at Canadian latest open government action plan and analyzed its commitments to provide the international community with some food for thought, and the Canadian government with a few recommendations for the future improvement and implementation of the plan.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics 2014: IRS political regs, Keystone XL & cigars draw most comments
Sunlight's Docket Wrench helps identify the federal regulations that drew the most public comment in 2014 -- and who is driving the traffic. Here's hoping 2015 brings more agency participation in regulations.gov!
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: A regal Rep., Christmas is for kids and an error from a dog, staffer
This week's roundup of deletions archived by Politwoops include a purple bedecked congresswoman, retaking a holiday from unknown detractors and a refreshing explanation on a bizarre deletion.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How California’s putting big local government data online
California has started to replace its traditional reports with big, open, machine-readable and visualizable data sets. Here's how they do it.
Continue readingA holiday surprise from our friends at Cards Against Humanity
Beginning on the ninth day of Cards Against Humanity’s “Ten Days of Kwanzaa or Whatever,” people who bought their special set of holiday cards received a long scroll identifying who had contributed to their senators—on double-sided paper!
Continue readingIn Japan, “fair” elections breed apathy and destroy competition
Sunday's elections in Japan were marked by voter apathy and a lack of competition.
Continue readingMajor updates to bulk legislative data announced
Today's meeting of the Legislative Branch Bulk Data Task Force produced some major news. Specifically, there will be a lot of new bulk legislative data in the new year.
Continue readingFederal Communications Commission: Put cable political ad buys online
The FCC agrees with Sunlight: Cable, satellite and radio political ad buys should be posted online.
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