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• BroadbandCensus.com’s Request For Assistance – And a Broadband Breakfast Club Invite

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  Here’s something that may appeal to transparency enthusiasts, as well as to environmental skeptics… WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009 – BroadbandCensus.com has been investigating broadband stimulus projects and focusing on the preferred projects from the states. We still lack letters to the National ...
  12 hours ago

• The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 423
  “The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0″Danielle Keats CitronUniversity of Maryland School of LawMaryland Legal Scholarship Network RPSUniversity of Maryland – School of LawGeorge Washington Law Review, Vol. 78, 2010University of Maryland Legal Studies Research, ...
  15 hours ago

• The House Health Care Bill — Transparent or Not?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The House health care bill is reportedly coming to the floor this weekend, and House Speaker Pelosi committed in September to a 72-hour delay between the time the bill is posted online and a final vote. Is that 72-hour delay happening? Some say yes. Some say no. On the “yes” side are some folks at the Sunlight ...
  3 days ago

• New conservative Douglas County school board to vote on GOP-backed charter school application

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 672
  Unofficial results posted at 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday by the Douglas County Clerk’s office show a conservative bloc making a clean sweep of the controversial Douglas County school board election . The results could have immediate implications for the district as one of the new board’s first items of business will ...
  5 days ago

• Texas Watchdog asks for the tax returns of Gene Locke and Annise Parker; voters deserve fully vetted Houston mayor

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Texas Watchdog has asked the mayoral candidates for their IRS tax returns for the last three years.Our email this morning to the campaigns of Annise Parker and Gene Locke asks:As part of our ongoing efforts to promote government transparency, Texas Watchdog asks that you release to us three years’ worth of your ...
  5 days ago

• Council candidate Noel Freeman filing ethics form — that leaves five candidates still missing

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Noel Freeman, candidate for the City Council At-Large Position 4 currently held by Ronald C. Green, plans to get a copy of his personal financial statement to the city secretary’s office today — in fact, he may already have done so by the time you read this. You might have seen our post on Thursday [...]
  1 week ago

• Grits for Breakfast: Texas AG Greg Abbott ‘thwarting transparency’

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  One of our favorite blogs, the law-related site Grits for Breakfast, is putting a whipping on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for not making public records public in cases like school districts’ police forces’ use-of-force policies and the Cameron Todd Willingham execution case: There’s just no excuse for ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Honduran Political Crisis Over?

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 765
  The United States has agreed to recognize the results of this month’s election.  Ousted President Zelaya will be allowed to return to Honduras, and the legislature will vote on whether to allow him to serve out the remaining three months of his term, albeit without control over the military. Meanwhile, it seems ...
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• White House Vistor records (so far)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  As part of President Obamas commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th onwards under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. In ...
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• Transparency like you’ve never seen before

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Today marks a major milestone in government transparency -- and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure.....A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are ...
  1 week ago

• Paranormal Legislative Activity?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  Here’s an entertaining and timely video from the Sunlight Foundation. Readthebill.org is where you can learn more about H. Res. 554 . Have a transparent Hallowe’en everybody!
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• Band of Dems blasts Geithner plan

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 672
  WASHINGTON– Appearing before a House panel on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made his best pitch for legislation granting the White House broad new powers to seize Wall Street firms when their collapse might torpedo others in the industry. It didn’t go so well. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ...
  1 week ago

• Hearing ‘State of Metro’ speech will set you back $65

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Want to know what the state of Houston’s Metro system is? It’ll only cost you $65 to find out!Yep, kids, that’s right — Metro Chairman David Wolff, who may not have a job for much longer, is going to give a “State of Metro” speech next Thursday, Nov. 5, and it’ll cost you $65 to [...]
  1 week ago

• How Texas Watchdog reported its HISD credit card story — and why we didn’t name names

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Establishing that the Houston Independent School District has handed over credit cards to people with dubious credit is one thing; naming those employees with the bad credit is another.Texas Watchdog isn’t dinging those folks by name in our story today. We’re aware that bad things can happen to good people. ...
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• Houston City Council District D candidates’ ethics forms posted

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  We’ve got one more batch of ethics forms to throw at you today from candidates in the Nov. 3 Houston city election. This time, it’s candidates for City Council District D, for which incumbent Councilwoman Wanda Adams is running for re-election.We have ethics forms for two of the three candidates in this ...
  1 week ago

• More ethics forms: Houston City Council At-Large Position 4

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  We’ve also got ethics forms for the candidates for Houston City Council At-Large Position 4 for you this morning. This is the seat that Councilman Ronald C. Green is vacating due to term limits (he’s running for city controller instead). The candidates and their forms:Former Houston Police Chief C.O. ...
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• Houston Independent School District issues credit cards to employees with bankruptcies

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  Houston Independent School District, the states largest school district, has provided more than 1,200 school employees procurement cards, which is a form of credit card. At least 18 of them have previously filed for bankruptcy, according to a Texas Watchdog review of public records.
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• Ethics forms for Houston City Council District C

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 567
  This morning, we’re bringing you ethics forms for the candidates for Houston City Council District C, where incumbent Anne Clutterbuck is running for re-election. Clutterbuck’s form is at these links: Part 1 and Part 2, and challenger Randy Locke’s form is at this link.
  1 week ago

• Hey, did you vote last November to end business as usual?

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  You know, new broom sweeping clean, cleaning out the Augean stables, generally showing those people in Washington who was who and what was what - and how there was going to be a new boss, with new rules and expectations on behavior. Well, meet the new boss : During his first nine months in office, President Obama ...
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• Against faith in government

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  In the last issue of The New Republic , Lawrence Lessig published the unfortunately titled article “ Against Transparency .” In it he criticizes what he calls the “naked transparency movement.” * The article has drawn several responses, with Ellen Miller and Michael Klein’s being the best and most ...
  1 week ago

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