Slate’s Dave Weigel has a really interesting take on why the omnibus spending bill just stalled in the Senate: The... View Article
Continue readingIndecent Disclosure: Success!
Last week, we challenged those of you who support open government and who live remotely in the DC area to... View Article
Continue readingToo Big To Fail: Is the financial sector too big in Washington?
Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, recently penned an op-ed in the New York... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency…Are Delicious
This week’s guest blogger is Jed Sundwall. Jed is an Internet marketing consultant who specializes in the usage of social... View Article
Continue readingBank lobbyist to lead Senate banking panel
Last week Sen. Tim Johnson, the incoming chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, hired Dwight Fettig, a lobbyist with numerous... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Arizona Transparency takes a Christmas break!
A recent report on how states are doing in their subsidy programs has been blog-fodder nationwide. But some of the... View Article
Continue readingVisitor Logs: Presidential CEO Meeting Not the First
The much-touted Presidential meeting with CEOs held earlier today was not the first time that President Obama has met with... View Article
Continue readingRefreshing SunlightFoundation.com
At the end of September I was pleased to step into the larger role of Creative Director. Working with all of the different departments that make up Sunlight, instead of just one, was a big and interesting step. It involved a lot more work, but the most challenging part was starting to consider how our products, produced for all of our different departments, worked together. Looking at everything we've produced over the last 4+ years was overwhelming, so I set out to evaluate and make changes to at least SunlightFoundation.com by the end of the year.
Continue readingWould the Air Force block the government if it posted WikiLeaks cables?
According to the New York Times, the United States Air Force is blocking access to any web sites that have... View Article
Continue readingLeaks and Open Government
Some recent discussions of WikiLeaks have labeled information leaks as the silver bullet in creating a more transparent government. There... View Article
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