Today's Super Bowl contenders have flexed their muscle outside the gridiron. A look at campaign contributions by the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks.
Continue readingCampaign finance roundup: Competition for Hillary; Newt’s got a hangover; donors like Dem challengers
Hillary Clinton's fans have surprise competition; CNN pundit Newt Gingrich is in massive debt and John Boehner is still king of the Hill. What our real time tracker reeled in from one of the FEC's busiest filing days.
Continue readingMagic is in the air: Hoops legend gives $64k to Democrats
An NBA legend helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Democratic House Senate Victory Committee at an L.A. fundraiser featuring the President.
Continue readingWhen your child’s lunch is repossessed — and other communication failures that need a little civic hacking
How a school lunch crisis exposed a need for innovative civic hacking.
Continue readingYes Rep. Pelosi, Congress has a revolving door
In an appearance on the Daily Show, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was skeptical that the 'revolving door' phenomenon applied to Congress.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Creating open map layers for the census
JusticeMap.org is helping people — even those who do not have any map making or geographical information systems experience — to create maps that combine open map layers with their own data.
Continue readingConservatives protest IRS proposal to define political activity
Nonprofits that would come under greater scrutiny under a proposed IRS rule defining political activity are organizing big letter-writing campaigns against the proposal.
Continue readingToday in #OpenGov 1/31/2014
Keep reading for today's look at #OpenGov news, events and analysis including Google Glass for transparency, education data from the world bank, and a slow appointment process in New York.
Continue readingWaxman retires with plenty in the bank, no serious challenger
Henry Waxman has announced his retirement at the end of his 20th term in congress. A look at his influence profile shows the high-profile congressman has relied on the healthcare industry, Washington PACs and Hollywood to finance his electoral efforts.
Continue readingPDF Liberation Hackathon and the need for more civic innovation
Public Sector Credit Solutions and Sunlight Foundation organized a multi-location PDF Liberation hackathon which helped free some much needed data but also exposed the need for more civic innovation.
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