Last Friday, OMB Watch’s Sam Rosen-Amy wrote about their six principles of federal spending transparency, in response to the oversight... View Article
Continue readingImprovements Needed For High Value Datasets On Data.gov
This morning a number of organizations — POGO, OMB Watch, CREW, National Security Archive, the Center for Democracy and Technology ... View Article
Continue readingThis Week in Transparency – August 7, 2009
Here are some of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies over the past week:... View Article
Continue readingAmerican Association of Law Libraries
For over a century, the American Association of Law Libraries has been a strong voice on a broad array of... View Article
Continue readingThis Week in Transparency – July 24, 2009
Here are some of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies over the past week:... View Article
Continue readingOMB Guidance On Reporting Use of Funds for Stimulus
As our colleagues at OMB Watch blogged about yesterday, the Coalition for an Accountable Recovery, of which Sunlight is a... View Article
Continue readingRight-To-Know Network Updated
The Right-To-Know Network (RTK Net) has completed their Web site redesign, and it looks totally awesome. RTK Net is a... View Article
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – May 1, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
Continue readingStill waiting for FOIA reforms to surface
Roger Strother writes at OMB Watch's Fine Print blog about the latest noise coming out of the Office of Information Policy about the "sea change in the way transparency is viewed across the government." That sea change is supposed to lift a lot of FOIA requests that, unlike boats, seem to sink the bottom with incredible rapidity, then burrow down into the muck at the bottom. We've found that the only way to surface those FOIA requests is the application of vigorous effort (including regularly calling FOIA officers to make sure they haven't forgotten us). Waiting--for months ...
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – April 24, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
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