While much media attention has been focused on the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, there’s been far less coverage... View Article
Continue readingTelling the Real Story
Yesterday, the Washington Times reported that various pharmaceutical companies and trade groups have contributed $172,500 to the Utah Families Foundation,... View Article
Continue readingPMA Group, Clients Flood House Appropriators with Cash
For the long serving gentleman from Indiana, Rep. Pete Visclosky, more than $1.3 million. For the ranking member, Rep. C.W.... View Article
Continue readingCongress Had No Time to Read the USA PATRIOT Act
It is hard to determine how long the final version of the USA PATRIOT Act was available prior to its... View Article
Continue readingThe Crowd Says It All
TransparencyCamp was awesome, but rather than my just writing about just how great it was — what we all learned,... View Article
Continue readingMore earmarks mapped!
Yesterday, it was the earmarks in the Commerce, Science & Justice bill. Today, it's Energy and Water:
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An Exciting Weekend for Transparency’s Posse
This weekend, Sunlight and iStrategyLabs are holding TransparencyCamp, an un-conference dedicated to sharing knowledge on how to use new technologies... View Article
Continue readingHackathons!
Our second big announcement of the day is that we're launching a pilot project: Sunlight Labs Live Hackathons.
The idea really came from Tim O'Reilly and O'Reilly media, who said "Hey, why don't you come out to Web 2.0 expo and see if you can get some projects done with some of the developers there." We said "Great Idea!"
At the same time, James opened up the doors for us at PyCon and they said "Great Idea!"
So now the question is: what do we do? We think that's a community decision, so we put up a feedback page where people can vote for what their favorite ideas are to work on. Go vote now!
Continue readingSenate E-Filing Bill Reintroduced, Pass S. 482
Here we go again! Just today, Sen. Russ Feingold introduced a bill, S. 482, to require senators to file their... View Article
Continue readingThe U.K. Goes Open Source
Here is some big news (a couple days late)! United Kingdom Cabinet Office Minister (for digital engagement) and Member of... View Article
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