The criminal complaint filed against Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris names five considered Senate candidates.... View Article
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois was arrested today on charges related to his decision on whom to appoint to President-Elect... View Article
Continue readingObama and Affirmative Disclosure
The Obama transition team released two new policies this week, a Creative Commons license and a radical disclosure policy. These... View Article
Continue readingThe Replacements: Illinois and New York
As you may be aware, President-Elect Barack Obama has vacated his Senate seat and Sen. Hillary Clinton will be following... View Article
Continue readingMaking Cities Think Like the Web
Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, gave a very interesting talk (audio and slide show available) at last... View Article
Continue readingThe Secret House of Congress
In a reiteration of just about everything we cover here at Sunlight, Congressional Quarterly released a terrific article examining the... View Article
Continue readingChange.gov meets Creative Commons
This is great news. Over the weekend, the Obama–Biden Transition team switched the copyright policy for their Web site, Change.gov,... View Article
Continue readingThe Revolving Door, Robert Rubin, and Citigroup
Today, President-Elect Barack Obama named the key members of economic team including Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers... View Article
Continue readingPolicy Review: POGO on Closing the Revolving Door
In the winter of 2007, in between the two sessions of the 110th Congress, Sen. Trent Lott, an institution in... View Article
Continue readingExaminer Op-Ed on Transparency and Transition
The Washington Examiner was kind enough to publish an Op-Ed I wrote on transparency in the new administration. The starting... View Article
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