Happy New Year! The Sunlight blog is back after the holidays and here’s a look back at some stories we... View Article
Continue readingNY Times: Clinton Foundation Donor got help from Hillary
Digging down deep into the list of Clinton Foundation donors, the New York Times finds that a donor had gotten considerable help from Sen. Hillary Clinton:
An upstate New York developer donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton's foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman's mall project.Mrs. Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert J. Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel ...
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Sunlight Blog Year in Review – Top Blog Posts of the Year
We blogged, you came, you read it. These are the top ten Sunlight blog posts of the last year based... View Article
Continue readingCongressional Bribery?
Jon Henke , one of the founding editors at The Next Right, wrote an interesting post comparing the bribes Illinois... View Article
Continue readingSEC Rules for Transparency and Oversight
John Wonderlich, Sunlight’s program director, writing at the Open House Project Google Group, tipped me off to an encouraging development.... View Article
Continue readingMore Content More Traffic
Boston’s Web Portal has been receiving more traffic and it is mainly due to the site managers allowing city employees... View Article
Continue readingBailout money mystery
Associated Press reports that 21 banks that received funds from the Troubled Assets Relief Program aren't talking about what they've done with the money. No wonder this headline seems so plausible...
Continue readingInspector Generals
Maybe we should all spend more time reading the Inspector General reports, which are (required to be) posted on line.... View Article
Continue readingNew York Times’ Represent Feature
The New York Times just launched a new interactive feature called Represent. Represent allows New York City residents to type... View Article
Continue readingGovTrack Upgrades
Our friends at GovTrack, a Sunlight Foundation grantee, are into their fifth year of keeping tabs on Congress. Josh Tauberer... View Article
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