Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including workplace safety data, opening London, and a state spending data scorecard.
Continue readingComcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger
As the Comcast-Time Warner cable merger is scrutinized on the Hill, will their combined $42.4 million in political contributions and $143.5 million in lobbying sway lawmakers' opinions?
Continue readingKoch group to target Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan
Add Michigan to the list of Senate races where Freedom Partners — the Koch-affiliated nonprofit that doled out $200 million to political dark money groups in 2012 — will be running political ads.
Continue readingContinuing Oxfam’s conversation on the limits of transparency
Oxfam's discussion of the limits of transparency resonates strongly with the weaknesses of the McCutcheon decision.
Continue readingCampaign Intelligence: Senate Majority leads the (super) PACs; Shaheen teams up with Democratic newcomer
In this week's Campaign Intelligence: Senate Majority spends million blasting Kochs, Shaheen teams up with a Democratic newcomer and Alan Simpson stands up for gay marriage.
Continue readingCFTC nominees gave campaign cash
When the members of the Senate Agriculture Committee meet today to consider the nominations of three new commissioners for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, they will be voting on three professionals who have played the political donor game.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 4/8/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including a Supreme pass, fighting corruption in Haiti, and local transparency in Florida.
Continue readingFEC says Allen West “scam PACs” did not break campaign finance law
Former Rep. Allen West, a GOP fundraising powerhouse from Florida, charged political consultants with using his name to raise money.
Continue readingKoch’s “secret bank” to begin airing ads
A shadowy political nonprofit associated with the Koch brothers is set to begin airing TV ads in the Denver market, records available on Political Ad Sleuth reveal.
Continue readingWhat the feds can learn from state and local e-filing
We already know the federal government has plenty of room for improvement in how it collects information. What about states and municipalities? We wondered whether local governments are doing any better with allowing for electronic filing of information.
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