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Yesterday I wrote about how the recently passed stimulus bill was available for public perusal just 13 hours before Congress... View Article
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R. Allen Stanford, the titan of Stanford Financial, and now the known as the Texas version of Bernie Madoff, spent... View Article
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It’s not much to ask Congress, as we do, to make available legislation for public perusal for 72 hours before... View Article
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Today, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a non-partisan group working to create transparency and accountability with corporate political spending,... View Article
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Transparency isn’t just something government does. It is an expectation of behavior. Citizens have to demand more transparency from government... View Article
Continue reading2/13-2/20 Top Sunlight Blog Posts
This week’s most read Sunlight blog posts look a lot like the previous week. 1) “Stop Hiding the Stimulus Bill”... View Article
Continue readingThe States Open Up Their Books
Since Congress passed the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, (also known as the Coburn-Obama bill) which mandated... View Article
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Every week I climb into the depths of the local political blogosphere to find the Sunlight. I use this series... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing Our Open Government List: OOGL
We’re excited to announce a new Sunlight Project: Our Open Government List (OOGL). In order to gather meaningful feedback for... View Article
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