Tag Archive: washington

Sunlight Weekly Roundup: Open meeting law violations and broken campaign promises regarding transparency

by Bridget Todd Nov 23, 2011 5:46 pm

According to Galloway Township News, New Jersey’s Galloway Township has failed to release an agenda for the townships meeting their... View Article

Transparency Is A Two-Way Street

by Guest Blogger Apr 20, 2011 4:17 pm

We welcome today’s guest blogger Matt Rosenberg. Matt is the founder of the non profit Public Eye Northwest and the... View Article

Citizens United: New York, California and Washington

by Ryan Sibley

investigations

Jun 29, 2010 1:45 pm

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United v. FEC case has rendered 24 states' election laws unconstitutional. The 5-4 ruling in favor of Citizens United reversed a provision of the McCain-Feingold act that prohibited any electioneering communication—defined as advertising via broadcast, cable or satellite that is paid for by corporations or labor unions. Many states have acted fast to counter corporations’ ability to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections by passing laws that force disclosure of all independent expenditures in near real time. The Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group has decided to report what each of ...

States of Transparency: Washington

by Sarah Dorsey

investigations

Jun 25, 2010 12:17 pm

The Open Government Directive encouraged states to put valuable government data online. In this series we're reviewing each state's efforts in this direction.

This week: Washington
Website: www.fiscal.wa.gov

USPIRG, a public interest group, ranked Washington state second lowest in the country in a recent evaluation of spending websites that track contracts and grants among other expenditures across states.

While the site, fiscal.wa.gov, links to a relatively broad swath of datasets, that data will have to get a lot more granular to be really useful to researchers and journalists.

A transparency website was mandated ...

24 Days Of Local Sunlight – Day 22

by Nisha Thompson Dec 22, 2009 2:34 pm

Today I want to give a shout out to Washington state’s Olympia Time. Olympia Time is a local blog written... View Article

Local Link Thursday

by Nisha Thompson Jul 30, 2009 10:13 am

Here some great links from around the Web. Center for Digital Government released the results from its Digital Counties Survey. ... View Article

Local Sunlight

by Nisha Thompson Dec 15, 2008 3:27 pm

Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article

Making Cities Think Like the Web

by Ellen Miller Dec 4, 2008 5:35 pm

Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, gave a very interesting talk (audio and slide show available) at last... View Article

Local Sunlight

by Nisha Thompson Nov 20, 2008 5:13 pm

Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article

State Transparency Roundup

by Nisha Thompson Feb 25, 2008 4:58 pm

While we work on more transparency for Congress it's important to note that federal efforts for openness can have a positive effect on state government. On the flip side the states can take the lead on disclosure or they can be less open this makes them great places to see how transparency is valued. Let’s see what the states are up to: