WASHINGTON — In the middle of Sunshine Week, when news organizations and advocacy groups promote government transparency, the Obama administrati...
The Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011
After launching Sunshine Week with yesterday's successful Advisory Committee on Transparency event, it's a good time to reflect on positive transparen...
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
A lawmaker may elect to disclose their employment negotiations after they have already negotiated, left Congress, and received a paycheck! Why even have these rules to begin with?
Kenneth F. Bunting | Posted 05.25.2011
Open government laws, in state after state, are being damaged and weakened, with increasing frequency, by new exclusions, loopholes and crazy exemptions that promote more secrecy and a lot less transparency.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's very public embrace of open government -- starting on his first full day in office -- has been a welcome change from the regime of ...
Ellen Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
As part of Sunshine Week, The Center for Public Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation are looking for help with The Data Mine, a new online series identifying inaccessible or difficult to use information.
Avelino Maestas | Posted 05.25.2011
Two weeks ago, the chief of staff for a member of the Republic of Korea Assembly looked over at me and, through a translator, said he was going to tell me why their political system is better than America's.
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.13.2012