We’ve spent a lot of time making general reflections about the experience we shared with some of you at TransparencyCamp,... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 6/3/2011
Finishing up a short post-Memorial Day week, here is Friday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills... View Article
Continue readingWest Coast Coders: Come Hack for Change!
Change.org is hosting a hackathon at their San Francisco headquarters in a couple of weeks. If you're in the Bay Area, handy with a text editor, and feel like doing some interesting work, I hope you'll consider joining the party (did I mention they'll be giving away $10,000 in prizes?). I'm pleased to say that Sunlight is a partner for the event, and indeed, I'll be on hand to talk to folks about our APIs, judge entries and, if at all possible, eat some Mission burritos.
You can find all of the details about Hack for Change here. I hope to see you in San Francisco on the 18th!
Continue reading…Let’s go exploring!
Five and a half years and 1,800 blog posts ago I started work at the Sunlight Foundation. Tomorrow will be... View Article
Continue readingOMB Metrics on Contracting Data Should Be Public
This morning Federal News Radio reported on a new memo issued by the Office of Management and Budget regarding the... View Article
Continue readingThe IMF, High-Speed Rail, and Hipsters: Recently on Our New Tumblr
We live in a time of information overload, of ever-more data on everything. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by... View Article
Continue readingBauer returns to firm with Super PAC practice
Departing White House counsel Robert Bauer is returning to the election law practice he built at Perkins Coie, where his once and future colleagues have been active on behalf of a pair of Super PACs. The firm recently asked the Federal Election Commission to rule on whether politicians can raise unlimited sums from any source for "independent expenditure-only" groups.
As the Reporting Group previously reported, Perkins Coie filed an advisory opinion request with the FEC on behalf of two clients, the Majority PAC (formerly known as CommonSense Ten) and the House Majority PAC, asking whether candidates for federal office can ...
Continue readingDevHouse DC #5 at Sunlight
Come by Sunlight's office in Dupont Circle this Saturday, June 4 for DevHouse DC's 5th gathering. We'll be here from noon to midnight, hacking, soldering, and roboticizing the day away.
If you have no idea what DevHouse DC is, then you have no choice but to come and find out the fun way. Or I guess you can look at their website, whatever. Hopefully using the words "typing", "talking", and "treasure" in a sentence together like this is enough to get it across. Register for free on EventBrite and we'll see you there!
2Day in #OpenGov 6/2/2011
Here in Thursday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News... View Article
Continue readingBankers critical of Dodd-Frank meet with Geithner
The same day Jamie Dimon, chief executive and president of JPMorgan Chase & Company, publicly bashed the new Dodd-Frank financial law he and the company's top lobbyist, Peter Scher, had a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
In his public statements reported on April 5, Dimon had harsh words for nearly every aspect of the new law, from derivatives oversight to regulation of interchange fees to the establishment of a new federal office, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to oversee the stability of the financial system.
Dimon was also part of a larger meeting the following day with the ...
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