Ken Ward, Jr. points to a statement by Sen. Jay Rockefeller calling for Senate hearings on the Upper Big Branch... View Article
Continue readingWhy not mining investigation transparency?
Ken Ward, Jr. at The Charleston Gazette asks an important question: Why not make investigations into mining disasters open to... View Article
Continue readingWhat you can do with TransparencyData.com Part II: Crist v. Rubio Edition
In the run-up to the 2010 midterm elections there is no race drawing more attention than the Republican primary between... View Article
Continue readingWhat you can do with TransparencyData.com
Sunlight Labs announced the release of TransparencyData.com earlier today. I spent some time playing around with the site yesterday and... View Article
Continue readingAgency Plans and Data
As I wrote earlier today, Sunlight is going to be particularly focused on data transparency in the new Open Government... View Article
Continue readingLIVE: HHS Announces Open Government Plan
The Department of Health and Human Services will be announcing their Open Government plan live via video at 1:30PM ET.... View Article
Continue readingThe Week of Our Lives
What happened here this week? Rep. Mike Quigley intoduced the Transparency in Government Act; Reps. Quigley and Darrell Issa launched... View Article
Continue readingLatest from Citizens United: Disclosure, Yes. Contribution limits, No.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today in favor of disclosure and against contribution limits for outside groups running... View Article
Continue readingRep. Quigley Introduces the Transparency in Government Act: You Helped Make it Happen
Today Rep. Mike Quigley introduced the Transparency in Government Act, sweeping legislation that addresses issues ranging from making Members’ reports... View Article
Continue readingTransparency, the Internet and the Affordable Care Act
Last year, I looked at the instances of the word “Internet” in the Senate version of the health care reform... View Article
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