“Forty percent of internet users went online for government data or information in the preceding twelve months,” according to the... View Article
Continue readingDo you know where your lobbyist is? He’s on Sunlight Live!
Whether you’re a gun owner, a home builder, an environmentalist or all of the above, you probably have no idea... View Article
Continue readingRethinking Advocacy Email
Email is an incredible tool for many things, but it's also *not* a very good way to communicate for much of what we tend to use it for. And on top of that, we all just get so darned many! Reading email often seems more a nuisance than an opportunity to many (most?) people. And that's a shame. In fact, it's an outright "problem" if your job is to engage both current and potential supporters in your cause, because email is still considered the primary outreach channel for most organizations.
Continue readingFundraising While Voting Should Be Disclosed in Real Time
The New York Times reported yesterday about a bold and far-reaching investigation underway by the Office of Congressional Ethics that... View Article
Continue readingTools for Transparency: Arc90′s Readability
Nicholas Carr of Wired recently wrote an interesting piece on how constant internet usage potentially “shatters focus, rewires brains.” In... View Article
Continue readingParty Time Shows Fundraising While Legislating is Widespread
Today the New York Times reports that the Office on Congressional Ethics (OCE) is continuing to dig in to its... View Article
Continue readingDeMint blocking secret hold bill
There seems to be a recurring theme with transparency legislation. Senators just love to block these types of bills. There... View Article
Continue readingHouse passes bill to ban ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ from lobbying
The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that would prohibit countries deemed “state sponsors of terrorism” by... View Article
Continue readingAvandia case highlights need for FDA transparency
This week’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee’s meeting on the controversial diabetes drug Avandia, which the New York... View Article
Continue readingCongress Needs to Respond to MMS Failures
Just as the Administration needs to incorporate transparency into their response to the failures of the Minerals Management Service, Congress... View Article
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