OVERDUE: “The care and support that our nation provides to veterans merits all of the transparency and accountability the federal... View Article
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¯\_(FEC)_/¯: After discussing what to do about foreign money being spent in U.S. elections and “scam PACs” today, the Federal... View Article
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LEARNINGS: The Center for Open Data Enterprise released the results of its open data roundtables over the past year in... View Article
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REGISTER THIS: Vote.gov was the #1 federal website all weekend long after Facebook prompted its users to visit and register... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Pardons, government sabbaticals, trust in government, corruption abroad, Bridgegate and more
A FIRST: As we noted in our audit last Friday, half of cabinet agencies had not uploaded a 2016 open... View Article
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ENTANGLED: A new feature by Kurt Eichenwald reported the myriad of personal and financial interests that the Trump Company holds... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Strengthening oversight, curbing foreign money, transparency on the trail
OPEN UP: Why do presidential candidates disclosing health records and tax returns matter? Any health conditions that could affect ability... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: FARA faults, transparency on the trail, FOILing open government orders
LOOKING AHEAD: This morning, Sunlight joined a panel of open government advocates at a launch event for Global Legislative Openness... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Madison 3.0, Lobbying the transition, Facebook censors Norway PM, Election databot and more
MADISON 3.0: The OpenGov Foundation launched the third version of its collaborative drafting software, which has come a long way... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: The future of the US City Open Data Census, first US CISO and more
Anchorage, Alaska, has been one of the more active cities in the census this past year. PARSING: Richard Yarrow collected... View Article
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