SUNLIGHT LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO CHANGE LOBBYING DISCLOSURE LAWS —Sunlight’s Ellen Miller: “This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Citizens... View Article
Continue readingLobby for a Special Interest: Yours
Over the coming months -- and if necessary, years -- Sunlight will fiercely advocate for greater transparency and disclosure around lobbying, and we want you to be involved every step of the way. The first step is building legislation that closes the loopholes for lobbyists and makes the influence of special interests transparent to the public. You can see and comment on our first draft of it at PublicMarkup.org - it’s the Real Time Online Lobbying Transparency Act.
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Federal Election Commission can’t set rules on Citizens United spending, disclosure. Ruling garners partisan 3-3 split — Election Law Blog... View Article
Continue readingChinese Companies Register To Lobby Congress
The business ties between the United States and China have been highlighted during the current state visit of the Chinese... View Article
Continue readingdjango-mediasync 2.0: Havana Nights
It's been almost a year since the last release of mediasync, but the new features we've worked on are worth the wait! If you use mediasync, please indicate that you do so on our Django Packages profile.
Source on GitHub: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/django-mediasync
Package on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-mediasync/
Install with pip or easy_install:
pip install django-mediasync
easy_install django-mediasync
What is this media syncing you speak of?
For those of you new to the project, mediasync is a Django app that manages static media in both development and production. Imagine a project where you have to make updates to existing media, but all references are hardcoded to some absolute path in production. Do you update the production media and risk breaking the site or do you temporarily point to local media and hope you don't forget to revert the change?
With mediasync you don't need to worry about any of that. Paths to media are automatically generated: local in debug, remote in production, and manually overridden when needed. Modify your media in your local development environment then use mediasync to push the change to the remote production server. Reduce stress and add years to your life!
Continue readingFollowing the Activity One Year After Citizens United
This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision. We here at Sunlight recognize... View Article
Continue readingLobbyist Tells Congress To Listen To Lobbyists
“These are people who knows things. Many of them worked on the Hill. They’re experts. These are relationships that can... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Vermont listens to call for transparency
It may not be all that, but the fact that actions from citizens have moved government hard enough for them... View Article
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4TH QUARTER LOBBYING DISCLOSURE REPORTS –Lobbying disclosure reports covering the period from October 1 to December 31 are due in... View Article
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Obama regulatory executive order already–one day later–leads to lobbying — The Hill Freshmen GOPers named to big fundraising committees: 12... View Article
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