The Open House Project » OpenHouse http://www.theopenhouseproject.com Recommendations, Resources, and Reform Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Day in Sunlight 1/27/2011 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2011/01/27/the-day-in-sunlight-1272011/ http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2011/01/27/the-day-in-sunlight-1272011/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:38:25 +0000 Nicko Margolies http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/?p=2221
Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller recapped Sunlight Live’s coverage of the 2011 State of the Union. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal began the day with a few transparency headlines, including highlights from the State of the Union, Wall Street Journal’s lawsuit to access data on Medicare, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • John Wonderlich broke down President Obama’s statements on transparency in his State of the Union address. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported on the reactions from lobbyists to the State of the Union. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • John Wonderlich commented on The Hill’s story on responses to President Obama’s call during the State of the Union for better lobbying disclosure from Congress. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller announced the Sunlight Live coverage of President Obama’s 2011 State of the Union. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal began the day with a few transparency headlines, including who is sitting with First Lady Michelle Obama in the upper level box seats for the State of the Union, Sunlight’s request for Congress to improve how it makes floor and committee videos available online, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Nicole Aro published the Local Open Government Directive, born out of CityCamp Colorado to make local government more transparent and accessible. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal highlighted Rick Hasen’s column from Slate on the death of the Federal Election Commission and the slow erosion of campaign finance laws. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported on the lobbying that occurs at Davos. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal closed the day with several transparency headlines including Sen. Harry Reid’s rebuttal to earmark talk from President Obama, the food industry vs. First Lady Michelle Obama, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Josh Hatch broke down the Sunlight Live coverage of the 2011 State of the Union. (Sunlight Reporting Group)
  • Bill Allison reported that the Wall Street Journal is suing for access to data on payments that doctors receive from Medicare. (Sunlight Reporting Group)
  • Keenan Steiner listed some of the pre-State of the Union fundraisers happening on Capitol Hill. (Party Time Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened recently on the Sunlight network.

  • Luigi Montanez announced the launch of Stream Congress, a real-time data stream that gives users a quick look into what exactly members of Congress are up to. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal began the day with a few transparency headlines including former Sen. Evan Bayh’s move to Wall Street, lobbying during State of the Union, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported that former Senator Evan Bayh is joining Apollo Global Management as a senior advisor with a role in public policy. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Daniel Schuman posted a copy of the letter from the Sunlight Foundation and Main Street Insider that calls upon the House of Representatives to improve how it makes floor and committee videos available online. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal closed the day with transparency headlines including GE’s negative tax rate, Rep. Waxman’s suggestions for new Oversight chair Rep. Issa, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened recently on the Sunlight network.

  • Nicole Aro announced Sunlight’s intentions to fiercely advocate for greater transparency and disclosure around lobbying with the first draft of the Real Time Online Lobbying Transparency Act at PublicMarkup.org. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal began the day with several transparency headlines, highlighting Ellen Miller’s statement on the one-year anniversary of Citizens United, PublicMarkup.org, Rep. David Rivera’s financial improprieties, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Nancy Watzman described the difficulty in obtaining financial public information on the six month anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Lisa Rosenberg reported that the Federal Election Commission marked the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United decision by failing to do anything to provide better disclosure of runaway secret campaign spending. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • James Turk announced the Sunlight Labs virtual office hours on irc.freenode.net at 3pm on Friday, January 28th. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Joshua Ruihley included links mentioned from last week Sunlight Labs Lunch, including Knight News Challenge, ScraperWiki, DBpedia, and more. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller marked the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision by looking at how following the money has changed over the past year. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal began the day with transparency headlines including the new 4th quarter lobbying disclosure reports, Office of Congressional Ethics and Supreme Court news, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal commented on former congressman and current lobbyist Vic Fazio’s encouragement to Congress to listen to lobbyists. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported that Chinese companies have begun to sign lobbying firms and register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act to lobby Congress and the Executive Branch. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Zubedah Nanfuka included the weekly round-up of transparency bloggers, this time focusing on bloggers from Vermont, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal closed the day with transparency headlines from Election Law Blog, Politico, Economist, and Tom Toles. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Jeremy Carbaugh released a new version of mediasync for Django. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Lisa Rosenberg marked the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal used Politico’s article “Obama’s Revolving Door” as a jumping off point to examine the approach that both the White House and Congress take to shining a light on the revolving door. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal looked at the transparency headlines for the day, highlighting Party Time, Politico, the money surrounding Sen. Joe Lieberman’s newly open seat, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal noted the hiring of three more lobbyists to the House Energy & Commerce Committee after naming a top Washington lobbyist as Staff Director in December, 2010. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported that Kaplan, one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges, has hired a team of Republican lobbyists with congressional experience as the for-profit industry comes under fire from Democrats in the Senate and the Department of Education. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal closed the day with a few transparency headlines, including the aftermath of Obama’s regulatory executive order, Gallup’s unemployment graphic, and more. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Tom Lee questioned why there aren’t more open data startups. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller announced the beta launch of OpenGovernment.org, a free and open-source web application that allows users to dig into local, city and state level government. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Tom Lee also announced that OpenGovernment.org is live with Sunlight’s first five states. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • John Wonderlich revealed a new White House Memo on Regulatory Compliance and described how it addresses data and information about how private entities disclose information to agencies that regulate them. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • AC Ranasinghe, Sunlight’s temporary law intern, detailed the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on whether corporations have a right to “personal privacy” that the government must respect when answering Freedom of Information Act requests. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal described the lobbying disclosure threshold and how it provides added secrecy for the lobbying of the most wealthy, the most powerful, and the most connected. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • John Wonderlich denounced the actions of Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, who just exempted himself and his staff from disclosing the amounts of their income. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal announced the hiring of Amy Friend, former chief counsel on the Senate Banking Committee, to the financial consulting firm Promontory Financial Group. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported that eight former senators are now able to lobby their former colleagues after the expiration of their two year cooling-off period this month. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal detailed the John Edwards loophole, specifically that his 527, the Alliance for a New America, hid some of its spending in a private company, Alliance for a New America LLC. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal announced the launch of Christ O’Donnell’s Super PAC, ChristinePAC, and noted its similarity to campaign that brought O’Donnell under federal investigation for misuse of funds. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal closed the day with a few transparency headlines from Politico, UPI, New York Times Deal Book, and the Center for Public Integrity. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Keenan Steiner illustrated several congressional fundraisers with an eye to industry and PAC donors as the House considers health care repeal. (Party Time Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened recently on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller celebrated the tenth birthday of Wikipedia and applauded their model of citizen engagement and collaboration. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal reported that former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is looking at Citizens United as part of his appeal to overturn his three-year prison sentence for laundering corporate money. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Mario Roset and Rosario Gonzalez Morón of Wingu, a Latin American NGO that helps local non-profits leverage technology for the benefit of civil society, wrote on transparency tools in Latin America. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • James Turk announced Brandon Lewis as the raffle winner for the raffle to celebrate Sunlight Lab’s 100th project on GitHub. (Sunlight Labs Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Ellen Miller reported that the Wesleyan Media Project, a Sunlight grantee, recently announced two academic studies based on the comprehensive political ad tracking from the 2010 midterm elections. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Daniel Schuman highlighted some of the recommendations from the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Federal Lobbying Laws. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Zubedah Nanfuka included another round-up of bloggers, this time focusing on bloggers from Texas, California, New Mexico, and Rhode Island. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
]]> http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2011/01/14/the-day-in-sunlight-1142011/feed/ 0 The Day in Sunlight 1/13/2011 http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2011/01/13/the-day-in-sunlight-1132011/ http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/2011/01/13/the-day-in-sunlight-1132011/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:26:36 +0000 Nicko Margolies http://www.theopenhouseproject.com/?p=2054 Here is a look at what happened yesterday on the Sunlight network.

  • Paul Blumenthal wrote about the practice of secret holds and a project aimed to track down the the Senator who held up a whistleblower protection bill. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Lisa Rosenberg had a piece about deterring lobbyist corruption by improving the disclosure rules. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal added a brief note about a project he’ll be working on and solicited feedback on the new blog design. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Paul Blumenthal rounded out the day with a quick look back at relevant headlines from the day. (Sunlight Foundation Blog)
  • Take a look at the previous day’s transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency related events. (The Open House Project)
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