I’m delighted to have had an OpEd piece published in USA Today today: How powerful is the Internet in getting... View Article
Continue readingThe Feds Embrace Social Media
Last week Doug Belzer at Federal Computer Week has an encouraging article about how Twitter, blogs and other Web 2.0... View Article
Continue readingSunshine Week Editorials on S. 482
Happy Sunshine Week everyone! I’m happy to share some editorials from around the country in support of Sunlight’s efforts to... View Article
Continue readingRecovery Transparency Stories and Recommendations
Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a letter to Earl... View Article
Continue readingErosion of Public’s Trust in Government Abating?
In conjunction with next week’s Sunshine Week, Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University have released the results of their... View Article
Continue readingTweet Success! Boxer and McCaskill to Support 482
Yesterday, we announced a campaign to pass S. 482, the Senate electronic filing bill. There are two tacks to this... View Article
Continue readingRead the Bill: Spending Bills Rushed
Yesterday President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, a $410 billion spending bill that funds government operations... View Article
Continue readingLooking under the TARP
Recently, as part of our work with Pew on Subsidyscope.com, we’ve been taking a close look at the performance of... View Article
Continue readingSave Trees–Pass S. 482
We’ve written about why the Senate should pass S. 482, requiring electronic disclosure of campaign finance records, because the public ... View Article
Continue readingBerkman’s New Media Cloud
Earlier today, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, teamed with Thomson Reuters, launched Media Cloud, a new project that... View Article
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