In the week following the Senate’s failure to bring the DISCLOSE Act to the floor for a vote, the pollsters... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 7/27/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP: Government Government website consolidation pressing on despite rumors of delay: The progress made by the White House in... View Article
Continue readingSunlight, Non-Profits File Pro-Disclosure Brief in Van Hollen v. FEC
This afternoon the Sunlight Foundation, joined by 8 other non-profits, filed an amicus brief supporting disclosing financial disbursements made by entities... View Article
Continue readingNew Hope for Legal Entity Identifiers (AKA Corporate Identifiers)
We’ve written about unique corporate identifiers on this blog with relative frequency over the past year. We even built a... View Article
Continue readingDisturbing trend in Texas counties limiting public access to public records
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the... View Article
Continue readingHere’s how Crossroads GPS has spent nearly $86 million in dark money
Alex Engler contributed research to this post. As a nonprofit advocacy group, Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies may legally hide where... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 7/26/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP: International Germany’s Mittelstands slow to embrace transparency: Germany’s small-to-medium-sized, family-owned companies known as Mittelstands employ up to 70%... View Article
Continue readingDark Money Disclosure Would be A Big First Step
Columnist Ezra Klein today dismissed the DISCLOSE Act as “a minor piece of legislation” that would not tackle the true... View Article
Continue readingFollowing the Law
One of the most precise ways to follow an issue you care about is to identify where it sits in... View Article
Continue readingCuomo’s “Leave No Trace” Administration Casts Shadows Over NY Government
“Create Open NY” is the fourth item on a list of prominent issues New York Governor Andrew Cuomo highlighted as... View Article
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