The Sunlight Foundation today announced that Sue Gardner, Allison Fine, Mark Horvit and Daniel X. O’Neil would join its board of directors.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: A regal Rep., Christmas is for kids and an error from a dog, staffer
This week's roundup of deletions archived by Politwoops include a purple bedecked congresswoman, retaking a holiday from unknown detractors and a refreshing explanation on a bizarre deletion.
Continue readingA holiday surprise from our friends at Cards Against Humanity
Beginning on the ninth day of Cards Against Humanity’s “Ten Days of Kwanzaa or Whatever,” people who bought their special set of holiday cards received a long scroll identifying who had contributed to their senators—on double-sided paper!
Continue readingMajor updates to bulk legislative data announced
Today's meeting of the Legislative Branch Bulk Data Task Force produced some major news. Specifically, there will be a lot of new bulk legislative data in the new year.
Continue readingClearing up the confusion about our analysis of net neutrality comments to the FCC
We've gotten some intense responses and questions after releasing our latest analysis of public comments on the FCC's proposal to regulate Internet traffic. In this post, we try to clear up the issues that have been raised.
Continue readingFOIA reform is dead (in this Congress), long live FOIA reform!
The chance for reforms to the Freedom of Information Act in the 113th Congress is officially gone. And yet, there is more reason to celebrate today than to despair.
Continue readingThe Week on Politwoops: a campaign to official account conversion, an omnibus flip flop and a basketball mixup
A weekly roundup of some notable deleted tweets archived by our Politwoops project.
Continue readingReflecting on Sunlight’s first Kickstarter
Today marks the end of Sunlight's first Kickstarter, an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to save our Sitegeist app. While we're sad to retire this aging project, it was rewarding to connect with many fans and even recruit new ones.
Continue readingWe’ve come a long way, baby: 8 years of Sunlight in opengov
Celebrate eight years of Sunlight with our interactive report, "Milestones and Metamorphosis: A Chronology of Sunlight and OpenGov.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Transparency is not just television
Our problem has been far too little transparency in the legislative chamber — not too much.
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