Tag Archive: Capitol Words

Earmark My Words

by Paul Blumenthal Jun 10, 2009 12:17 pm

What do top earmarkers talk about in Congress? Does our money go where their mouths are? In the case of... View Article

Capitol Words: Pete Visclosky’s Home State

by Paul Blumenthal Jun 8, 2009 11:15 am

Last week, I posted about the relationship between PMA Group fanboy Rep. Pete Visclosky’s campaign contributions from clients of the... View Article

Capitol Words: Socialism

by Paul Blumenthal May 28, 2009 5:19 pm

What’s that word, you know, from the 1980s, that you’ve been hearing congressmen say all the time? It refers to... View Article

The Week In Words (May 12-19)

by Paul Blumenthal May 21, 2009 4:42 pm

What words were used the most in the past seven days and why? These are the questions I’m going to... View Article

Tracking swine flu…

by Bill Allison

investigations

Apr 28, 2009 2:28 pm

...with Google maps.

View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

Not our usual thing, but I thought it was interesting. For those curious, here are members of Congress who have used the words influenza, pandemic, tamiflu or flu over the last two years.

Weekly Media Roundup – April 24, 2009

by Mike Smith Apr 24, 2009 12:36 pm

Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article

Taking the Capitol Words Rabbit Hole: “Caribbean”

by Paul Blumenthal Apr 17, 2009 4:01 pm

According to Carl Malamud, Sunlight is “truly styling” due to our appearance in the Reliable Source in an article about... View Article

XML is Not Enough

by Ellen Miller Jan 28, 2009 10:53 am

David Robinson, associate director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, has an interesting post at the center’s Freedom to... View Article