The chance for reforms to the Freedom of Information Act in the 113th Congress is officially gone. And yet, there is more reason to celebrate today than to despair.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: a campaign to official account conversion, an omnibus flip flop and a basketball mixup
A weekly roundup of some notable deleted tweets archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingBridging the gap between research and practice in criminal justice
With evidence-based practices becoming increasingly popular in many areas of criminal justice, the external push for academics to engage in policy decisions is logical. How such a connection can be forged sustainably, though, is less obvious.
Continue readingHow to engage the next generation of decision-makers with opengov issues
For Computer Science Week, Sunlight has several tools that children can use to educate themselves on government.
Continue readingReflecting on Sunlight’s first Kickstarter
Today marks the end of Sunlight's first Kickstarter, an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to save our Sitegeist app. While we're sad to retire this aging project, it was rewarding to connect with many fans and even recruit new ones.
Continue readingWe’ve come a long way, baby: 8 years of Sunlight in opengov
Celebrate eight years of Sunlight with our interactive report, "Milestones and Metamorphosis: A Chronology of Sunlight and OpenGov.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Transparency is not just television
Our problem has been far too little transparency in the legislative chamber — not too much.
Continue readingPresident Obama is not on GitHub
While President Obama may have written his first line of code, he doesn't have a GitHub account. We need to clear up some confusion over the PresidentObama account we made.
Continue readingFEC meeting pits commission against itself
The latest skirmish between FEC commissioners is whether they should have the power to reign in their own lawyers' outside investigations.
Continue readingComparing the sharing of public records
A new tool for openness is emerging at the intersection of the reactive public records request-and-response process and proactive open data: the public records portal.
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