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Continue readingSee who’s pulling the strings of Oklahoma’s new dark money group
An Oklahoma City developer and two state lobbyists are behind a newly minted for-profit corporation spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on Oklahoma’s special senate election. Two of the group's "incorporators" have ties to a federal PAC.
Continue readingHow Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before you ever heard of it
From 2009 until mid-2013, drug companies and associations mentioned the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 251 separate lobbying reports – two and a half times more than the next most active industry.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 3/13/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including a new government "startup," privacy reforms in Australia, and a more open Chattanooga.
Continue readingLocal D.C. corruption has ties to federal politicians
The man who plead guilty on Monday to violating campaign finance laws in 2010 by funneling more than $600,000 to then Washington D.C. mayoral-candidate Vincent Gray has also had questionable financial dealings on the federal level.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Mary Cheney’s firm organizes pro-Keystone XL blitz
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary, appears to be connected to a last-minute effort to persuade federal regulators to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Continue readingThe Sunlight Foundation’s Data Visualization Style Guidelines
A look at our Data Viz Guide, why we created it and how well it's working.
Continue readingSunlight’s Dodd-Frank Tracker is being decommissioned
Today we are turning off our Dodd-Frank tracker. It will still be online but it will be frozen in time, no longer reflecting new meetings.
Continue readingPolitical chemistry: The legal magic that makes corporate donations disappear
Want to know what dark money is and what it can do? Here's a classic example.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 3/12/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including Senate Intelligence vs the CIA, censorship in Mexico, and ethics reformish in Virginia.
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