Here are some of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies over the past week:... View Article
Continue readingThis Week in Transparency – July 2, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and allies from the week:... View Article
Continue readingWhat info do YOU want in our new congressional profiles?
This fall the Sunlight Foundation is creating a whole new generation of watchdogs by engaging thousands of high school students... View Article
Continue readingNew “RaceTracker” to Track Every Congressional Race Nationwide
The newly launched RaceTracker - a non-partisan, fully-referenced, open-source and crowd-sourced wiki project - lists every candidate running in every U.S. Senate, House and governor's race.
Continue readingSunlight in Every Corner…
We want to make sure you know what's going on - and more importantly, hear what you have to say - so below is a first in what we'd like to be a bigger and longer conversation with you about what's happening to open our government because of your support. Our aim is simple: make sure we're all as informed and engaged as possible because we are taking on a monumental mission, and it's going to take all of us.
Continue readingFun with Lines and Dots and Open Source Code
Anthony Mattox, a very talented student at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), recently released some processing code called WikiWeb... 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 readingGradeGov.com
Politico’s Victoria McGrane wrote a piece that got my attention about a new Web site that might help congressional lawmakers... View Article
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – April 17, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
Continue readingSleuthing the Stimulus’ bonus provision
So maybe Dodd's not to blame for the AIG bonus furor. Jane Hamsher uses OpenCongress.org to compare versions of the bill -- Donnie Shaw explains how here. Hamsher concludes:
So -- in the end, all compensation limits only applied to contracts written after February 11, at the specific request of Timothy Geithner, and AIG was able to pay out $286 million in bonuses on Sunday.It's impossible to know how many of those bonuses would have been covered by Dodd's original language without examining the individual contracts. What is certain, however, is that the loophole regarding "retroactivity" which ...
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