The strange case of John Edwards–who has been humiliatingly undressed as a scoundrel and the very opposite of what he... View Article
Continue readingBloomberg sugary drink ban has powerful opponents
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement that the city will pursue a ban on large sugary drinks sold at restaurants, movie theatres, and other locations is just the latest attempt in his campaign against obesity--one that has so far met with little success in the face of a powerful food lobby, one sometimes joined by odd bedfellows.
In 2010, when his administration asked the federal government for permission to prohibit New York City food stamp recipients from purchasing sugary drinks with their benefits, the Food Industry Alliance of New York State, a trade group representing New York State grocers and other ...
Continue readingOpen Data and the 2012 Elections: A Look at the VIP Hackathon
The day after TransparencyCamp, Sunlight joined the good folks at the Voting Information Project to host a hackathon. It was... View Article
Continue readingMore JPMorgan meetings with Treasury on Volcker rule
JPMorgan executives, including CEO Jamie Dimon, attended several meetings at the Treasury Department last month to discuss the controversial Volcker rule and other matters related to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, according to new meeting logs released by the agency Thursday.
In the weeks leading up to the bank's disclosure that it had lost at least $2 billion in the sort of hedging strategy that could come under question as agencies implement the Volcker ban on proprietary trading, JPMorgan executives attended three meetings at the agency, the logs show.
Two of those meetings, both on April 26 with Deputy ...
Continue readingShining Light on Political Advertising
For most Americans, the incessant barrage of political ads on TV are still a few months away. But in Wisconsin,... View Article
Continue readingDear Rep. Quigley: right back at ya, re: Sunlight’s congressional speech study
Dear Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL): With this post, I offer my humble appreciation that you should deign to take to... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 5/31/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance Supreme inconsistencies: Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired two years ago, attacked the... View Article
Continue readingBig donors to Democratic super PACs visited White House
Though President Barack Obama called super PACs a "threat to democracy" before embracing them last February in his own reelection effort, he and members of his inner circle had no trouble meeting with the kind of people who contribute to them. At least 16 individuals who gave money to some of the major outside spending groups had meetings with White House officials--including Obama himself.
The group of 16 includes major Democratic donors, bundlers for Obama's campaign and a few individuals who have official roles in the administration. Some have frequent access to both the president and his inner circle ...
Continue readingTHOMAS Talking Points
This Thursday at 11am, the House Appropriations Committee will mark-up the legislative branch appropriations bill and an accompanying committee report.... View Article
Continue readingDid Sunlight silence Jeff Miller’s tweets?
Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., took his Twitter account private on Wednesday shortly after the Sunlight Foundation reported that he had deleted a tweet including a link to a poll about President Obama's birthplace.
Miller's last public tweet -- "Florida set to toughen ID theft" -- came at 1:33 p.m., less than an hour after Sunlight revealed his online erasure in a blog post. Slate writer Jeremy Stahl appears to have been the first to notice the sudden disappearance of the five-term Pensacola congressman's Twitter acount, @CongJeffMiller.
Sunlight phoned and emailed the congressman's communications director, Dan McFaul ...
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