Last week, the White House released another set of visitor logs online and in a format that can be parsed... View Article
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There was a terrific op ed in the Maryland section of the Washington Post this weekend by two locally based... View Article
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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to read more; so I asked a few fellow Sunlighters for books to... View Article
Continue readingHow Transparent is Your Turkey?
The government collects terabytes of data on food—from safety to marketing to subsidies—funded by taxpayers and consumers. But that does not mean this crucial information is available to you online and in real time so you can actually do something about it.
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This is from US Deputy CIO for Open Government Beth Noveck: Inspired by the President’s call for more open government,... View Article
Continue readingStimulus Leads to Better State Level Reporting
NextGov reports on positive side-effects of the stimulus’ disclosure and transparency provisions: Technology that states have deployed to report how... View Article
Continue readingLawmaker Investments and Disclosure Part II
Following up on the previous post, I took a look at the Baird bill (H.R. 682) to require disclosure of... View Article
Continue readingLawmaker Investments and Disclosure
According to an article in today’s Washington Post, the number of lawmakers owning and trading stocks has nearly tripled since... View Article
Continue readingTransparency, the Internet and Health Care Reform
The Senate health care reform bill (viewable here) contains numerous provisions that stress disclosure and transparency, specifically online disclosure and... View Article
Continue readingCokie Roberts Reviews ‘Read The Bill’
NPR Senior News Analyst and ABC political commentator Cokie Roberts reviewed the political landscape facing advocates of reasonable public access... View Article
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