This week, a new report says the General Services Administration “ignored” constitutional questions when allowing the lease of the Old Post Office to move forward, T-Mobile executives reserved rooms at the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. as it was announcing merger plans that would require Trump Administration approval and questions about whether President Donald Trump told his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.
Continue readingNews Without Transparency: GSA Chief Resigns Amid Reports of Excessive Spending
News Without Transparency – GSA Chief Resigns Amid Reports of Excessive Spending This post was written in conjunction with Policy... View Article
Continue readingThe News Without Transparency: Health and Human Services Department Contributes to Big Government Spending on Advisory Committees
Last spring the government technology newspaper Federal Computer Week highlighted the Health and Human Services Department for spending $1.6 billion on... View Article
Continue readingCrunch Time in Senate for Flagship Transparency Programs
The amount of money available for flagship transparency programs and how they will be funded is again the subject of... View Article
Continue readingGAO Progress Report for E-Gov Fund
The Government Accountability Office concluded that major projects funded through the E-Gov Fund “could potentially lead to benefits including cost... View Article
Continue readingWhat Open Government plans could learn from retail management
After working several depressing retail jobs in my teenage years, I used to think that it was a kind of... View Article
Continue readingHearing on Contractor Database Transparency
If you’ve ever tried to research federal contracts you’ll find that the databases used to house those contracts online are... View Article
Continue readingSenator McCaskill Announces Hearing on Contracting Database, Calls for Public’s Questions
Senator McCaskill just announced something doubly relevant to these groups. (posted to both Open House and Sunlight Labs lists) First,... View Article
Continue readingGSA Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter, Spring 2009
The GSA just published the Spring 2009 edition of their Intergovernmental Solutions Newsletter, featuring a diverse offering of transparency related... View Article
Continue readingWhite House: Where is the CTO?
On his second day in office, President Barack Obama issued a sweeping memorandum on transparency in government, setting out an... View Article
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