NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance: Campaign finance reform: a history: Despite being outspent last month and possibly becoming the first presidential... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP Transparency President nominates his choice for head of panel monitoring government spending: Richard Ginman, the procurement and acquisition... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP: Outside Spending: Forget super PACs: Anonymity now preferred by corporations: Corporations are increasingly donating money to “social advocacy”... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP International UN supports Internet freedom: In a shift from its proposed—and highly opposed—plan to increase the power of... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP State/Local Lobbyists now need to register when dealing with Florida school board: Those who lobby to the school... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP Open Data HuffPo poll data now available to developers: The Huffington Post has started to give API access... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP: State/Local L.A. City Council ends live feeds of some meetings: Citing budgetary concerns, the Los Angeles City Council... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP Open Government Russian discussion of impending open data publication held: A presidential decree declaring that states in Russia... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP International Open government comes quickly in Brazil: Since May, Brazil has launched a new freedom of information act,... View Article

NEWS ROUNDUP Campaign Finance First unlimited spending, now unlimited secrecy: In a departure from their former campaign finance rhetoric–in which... View Article