OpenCongress has a new feature: email addresses for your representatives. This simple capability has been years in the making thanks to the hoops that our legislators make citizens jump through.
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Carl Malamud has just taken his archive of nonprofit data offline because of the government's failure to respond to serious concerns.
Continue reading“UnBlight,” A community unconference on housing data
We are planning an Unblight unconference to bring together community advocates, technologists, journalists, policy makers and students interested in exchanging ideas and sharing lessons about combating blight and repurposing abandoned parts of our cities.
Continue readingIt’s time for Congress to show us the money — in real time
Three simple ways you can help update disclosure for the 21st century.
Continue readingHow partisan are your state’s legislators?
We've used statistical models to visualize how partisan (almost) every state legislator in America is. Find out where your reps stand!
Continue readingUse Sunlight’s APIs for your own project!
A review of Sunlight's most popular APIs and some non-Sunlight projects that use our free data!
Continue readingBetter Know a TCamper: Meet the speakers that will get the TransparencyCamp 2014 party started!
Meet the speakers kicking off Transparency Camp 2014!
Continue readingHow telecoms and cable have dominated net neutrality lobbying
With the FCC's proposal threatening net neutrality, lobbying activity looks like it's reached a fevered pitch. But for the organizations involved, especially telecom companies, lobbying has been at a fevered pitch for a decade.
Continue readingWhy we’ve collected a hojillion inspector general reports
While not technically a hojillion, as of now we've downloaded over 5,000 reports using reliable scrapers for 5 agencies.
Continue readingHighlights from the first-ever PoplusCon in Santiago
Last week, Sunlight attended the first-ever PoplusCon in Santiago, Chile — here are the ideas, sessions and conversations that stood out to us.
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