It’s always refreshing to see students interested in opening up their government. Showcasing a student-run government transparency project in Utah,... View Article
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[View the story “Volunteer for TransparencyCamp 2012” on Storify] Volunteer for TransparencyCamp 2012 The success of this year’s TCamp relies... View Article
Continue readingSuper PAC profile: State bankers target lawmakers over Dodd Frank law
A group of state-based banking associations have launched a new Super PAC--known as "Friends of Traditional Banking"--to target lawmakers who they consider hostile or friendly to their concerns: namely, the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.
"Everyone knows that traditional banks didn't cause the economic crisis, but that didn't stop Congress from heaping massive new regulations on them and their customers," reads the group's website. "The Dodd-Frank regulatory reform act...was supposed to target Wall Street abuses. It didn't. Instead it aimed squarely at traditional banks and their customers. When it all shakes out, it will reduce ...
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NEWS ROUNDUP Government National Cancer Institute opens up? The NCI is trying to cultivate a community of outside contributors to... View Article
Continue readingPlay ball! How MLB teams rank in political giving
It's opening day of Major League Baseball's 2012 season, so Sunlight has decided to take a look at which teams are the heaviest hitters when it comes to political giving.
Turns out the deepest pockets don't always correlate with most home runs.
The Baltimore Orioles finished dead last in the American League East last year with a dismal record of 63 wins and 93 losses, but giving by their politically active owner, Peter Angelos, has made the Charm City team the champions of campaign giving.
Angelos gave more in the 2002 election cycle--some $2.1 million--than he ...
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NEWS ROUNDUP Government Pennies for Paul: Ron Paul’s presidential campaign takes its reporting duties seriously, often going the extra mile... View Article
Continue readingThe News Without Transparency: Heritage Foundation Illustrates Travel Restriction Loopholes
The News Without Transparency- Heritage Foundation Illustrates Travel Restriction Loopholes Earlier this month Roll Call reported on how the the Heritage Foundation has... View Article
Continue readingSTOCK Act to be Signed Today
A few of us at Sunlight are excited to be going to the bill signing ceremony for the STOCK Act... View Article
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NEWS ROUNDUP Access to Information Let Aunt Bertha help you: Aunt Bertha, is a new portal that collects and makes... View Article
Continue readingThe best coverage money can buy? New Philly newspaper owners are old hands at exchanging money for influence
It had to have been a weird scene Monday at the headquarters of Philadelphia's two daily newspapers when some of the region's biggest political money men -- frequent targets of some of the journalists' aggressive coverage -- showed up to tell reporters they now own the place.
The sale of the Philadelphia Media Network, the corporation that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, is another sign of the continuing financial struggles of daily newspapers, and it raises questions about how much independent reporting about political influence will be possible in the nation's fifth biggest city ...
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