The Right-To-Know Network (RTK Net) has completed their Web site redesign, and it looks totally awesome. RTK Net is a... View Article
Continue readingReviewing Last Week’s National Dialogue on Recovery IT
The following is an excerpt from what's been going on inside the head of Greg Elin, the retiring Chief Evangelist for the Sunlight Foundation, as he contemplates the Recovery's Board week-long virtual brainstorming event TheNationalDialogue.org which concluded Sunday. Moderator: The Recovery Board has launched a web site for what it bills as a National Dialogue on Recovery IT hosted by the National Academy of Public Administration. The virtual event began on Monday, April 27 and ended Sunday, May 3. To discuss how the event went are my two guests who have been following Recovery.gov. My first guest is happy "Greg :-)" who believes the Web changes everything and end-users made the conversation fruitful. Presenting a different view is grumpy "Greg :-(" who knows a bureaucracy when he sees one and wonders how this was a dialogue if no Recovery Board IT people participated. Greg :-) I'm happy to be here. Greg :-( (Hmpf) Thank you for having me.
Continue readingWhite House Lobbying Meeting: Public Debrief
Colleagues Daniel Schuman and Lisa Rosenberg and I just returned from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where a meeting was... View Article
Continue readingRaising the Expectation of Professionalism
At the Inside Counsel’s Ninth Annual Conference, Robert Bauer, campaign finance lawyer and council to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign... View Article
Continue readingUnsafe roads and cars
You know all those people who say that you’re more likely to be killed on the highway than in an... View Article
Continue readingAlways amazes me…
what you can find in lobbying disclosure data. I was looking for something else when I came across this filing. TIG Insurance has hired the Normandy Group to "[a]ddress non-payment by Government of Argentina of fees owed to TIG Insurance Company. Seek to put restrictive language in Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills re: US assistance to Argentina." The fees paid are less than $5,000, so it doesn't seem like a lot of lobbying went on, but the list of lobbyists has a few revolvers on it:
I guess that's one way to get a bill paid...
Continue readingSenate Reverses Policy, Posts Votes in XML
The US Senate has finally reversed its longstanding policy of restricting public access to raw data about how Senators vote,... View Article
Continue readingWhy Transparency?
One way that transparency can directly affect outcomes is when information is released in ways that preempt bad decisions. In... View Article
Continue readingThey Cared to Comment
Rural Electrification Administration photograph of a woman turning on a washing machine. The REA was a New Deal program and... View Article
Continue readingWhiteHouse.gov Ethics Page is Alive
As President Obama launched the new WhiteHouse.gov back in January, many were concerned when a particular issue page, “Ethics,” went... View Article
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