For a while now, we have been advocating for opening up our government through the use of technology and the... View Article
Continue readingSunlight weekly Round-up: Of Tax breaks and Transparency
In an interview with Newsweek, former U.S. President, Bill Clinton suggested lowering corporate tax rates as one of the ways... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Louisiana governor to become subject to public records law
As mentioned earlier, the open government movement made major strides today — when together with the Participatory Politics Foundation, we... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Illinois to delay FOIA requests
While advocating for writing and printing as one of the strongest pillars of support for free government — the absence... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: FOI in Connecticut could lose credibility in new merger
In his book, The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records, Charles N. Davis analyzes a study by Michael... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Montana uses cost to clamp down on transparency
In our still on going campaign to tell our governors to support open government, we stand beside citizen activists who... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Pennsylvania campaign finance reform in jeopardy
A search using our Influence explorer, for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, reveals that between 2003-2010, the governor received a total... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly round-up: Maine activists join transparency movement
Earlier we wrote about how Maine was moving towards listening to calls for transparency. Now, we are happy that other... View Article
Continue readingSunlight weekly round-up: When voting leaves a paper trail
Now here is an interesting argument about the legitimacy of the term “open government”. In her “Why “Open government” is... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Weekly Round-up: Oregon may reduce exemptions on public records
When it comes to public records, different states have different exemptions. What is exempted in one state, may not necessarily... View Article
Continue reading
59063
