Tag Archive: state

Influence Profile: New Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos

by Kathy Kiely

investigations

Aug 5, 2013 5:21 pm

Updated: 6:12 p.m.

In a town where he now owns one of the biggest megaphones, Jeff Bezos has kept a low political profile.

The Amazon founder, who on Monday announced that he's buying the Washington Post, has made relatively few political contributions, most of them in the other Washington -- Washington state, where he makes his home. But Bezos has made up in size what his influence profile lacks in quantity.

Last year, he gave $2.5 million to Washington United for Marriage, a group that successfully defended a state law allowing same-sex nuptials, singlehandedly underwriting one-fifth of ...

The 1% of the 1% by state

by Ben Chartoff, Lee Drutman and Amy Cesal Jun 24, 2013 9:03 am

This table contains data on members of the 1% of the 1%, organized by state. For each column, the colors correspond to the size of the given indicator, with the darkest green referring to the ten states with the largest values, and the lightest green to the ten lowest. Click on a column name to re-sort the table by that column.

Best practices for state and local bloggers

by Zubedah Nanfuka Jun 25, 2012 12:48 pm

With contribution from Amy Ngai Earlier this month, a few of us from the Sunlight Foundation attended two of the major online political organizing conventions: Netroots Nation 2012 and Right Online. Both events highlighted the challenges faced by local and state bloggers, and gave recommendations for bloggers on how to reach a broader audience. We always encourage local bloggers and writers to share their experience in promoting government transparency in their local communities by writing guest blogs. You can read our past guest blog posts here. Blogs prove time and time again to be one of the quickest inexpensive ways of getting the word out – in real time. And if used right, they can be an important platform to call for accountability and transparency from our respective governments.

A State by State Look at Lobbyist Disclosure

by Daniel Schuman Jul 19, 2011 10:51 am

by Eric Dunn, Sunlight policy intern All 50 states require lobbyists to disclose some information about their work. Some require... View Article

Money in State Judicial Elections

by Daniel Schuman Aug 16, 2010 12:59 pm

What’s the price of justice? Over the last decade, state supreme court candidates raised over $200 million for their elections,... View Article

On the new NYSenate.gov

by Clay Johnson

technology

May 8, 2009 10:15 am

The transparency community is abuzz today with the revelation of the New York Senate website. It is shiny and pretty. There are great new features and even our website, Public Markup gets a shout out. Neat!

What's great about it is uniformity. Every Senator has a website that's the same as every other Senator's, with links to their RSS feeds and even twitter accounts. They've got blogs and interestingly enough calendars. Now, the technology for transparency is there. Sadly, it doesn't look like the Senators are using it yet -- I find it hard to believe, for example, that the Senate President has a clear schedule for the rest of the month.. But the technology is there and the NY Senate technology team ought to be commended for building that in (and making it export in iCal!).

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