Michael Bennet, Jane Norton To Attend Lobbyist Fundraiser At Same DC Townhouse
Republican candidate Jane Norton was in town Monday for a big-money fundraiser at a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by partners of Williams & Jensen, a p...
Republican candidate Jane Norton was in town Monday for a big-money fundraiser at a Capitol Hill townhouse owned by partners of Williams & Jensen, a p...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Tickets to this Sunday's grudge match between the NFL's Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys can be had on Craigslist for less than $200. But for $2...
Jake Brewer | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
Some really strange stuff went down when the Sunlight Foundation gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a couple. Totally unexplainable.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business
The Sunlight Foundation released a video on Thursday highlighting its investigation of lobbyist bundlers with OpenSecrets.org. The investigation, whi...
Jan Schaffer | Posted 12.01.2009 | Technology
Documents and data are becoming key ingredients for creating entry points into the news.
Ellen Miller | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
Three years ago, those using the Web for transparency likely registered around zero. But in the intervening years, Congress has adapted to the Internet at incredible speed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
Lobbyists representing seven of Wall Street's top ten bailout beneficiaries and their trade associations made more than $6 million in campaign contrib...
Craig Newmark | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Government accountability requires campaign finance data disclosure in electronic, searchable, online form, easily accessed as a database. This is easily done using current Web tech.
Craig Newmark | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
The Sunlight Foundation and Blogher are teaming up to move our national health care conversation beyond partisan mud-slinging by going back to the facts.
Jake Brewer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
S.482 is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and it's time the Senate picked this one off and let us move on to even more pressing transparency issues.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
The duo of Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley, raised $219,000 from health and insurance political action committees (PACs) from April to June of this year.
Jake Brewer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Read as stated, this description leads one to believe that the U.S. government spent nearly $1.2M for 2 pounds of ham ...sliced.
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home
As is now showing up all over the social web and news reports, the site Recovery.gov - which was set up to help the public hold government accountable...
Rep. Bill Cassidy | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Transparency, accountability, and rigorous oversight are the keys to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government. They are also the keys to regaining taxpayers' trust.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to crash a dinner party for Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.). It was one of many fundraisers happen...
Craig Newmark | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York
What that means is that people can write applications which show what's going on in NYC government.
Jake Brewer | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
This is awesome: "a non-partisan, fully-referenced, open-source and crowd-sourced wiki project that lists every candidate running in every U.S. Senate, House and governor's race."
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Well, there's this Senate bill, the The Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, which pretty much means that Senators need to tell us where their campa...
Jake Brewer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Sometimes the geekiest stuff is the most important. When it comes to creating a more transparent and accountable government, Thursday, May 21, is one...
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Without disclosure of contacts, it may take some time to see whether today's event was just a high-level photo-op, or if it actually paid off in one-way or the other.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
The need for a better system of lobbying disclosure, that increases registration and disclosure, is necessary to provide the public with the information that actually matters.
Craig Newmark | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Bob Bauer's work is of major importance, reminding us that lobbying often is in the public interest or is just about someone getting a fair shake for their clients.
Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics
While the prospect of having the public leaf through one's daybook may send chills down the spines of public officials, this level of public exposure is the wave of the future.
The Denver Post | Michael Riley | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver