One of the most frustrating things I encountered as a small-town reporter was a lack of access to information: whether I was trying to find out about laws in the Roundhouse or enrollment rates at WNMU, sometimes I ran into brick walls and red tape. I now work for the Sunlight Foundation and OpenCongress, two [...]

If you’re interested in government information, and you have a knack for programming or visualizing information and like money (and who doesn’t like money) should check out Sunlight Labs new contest: Apps for America 2. Sunlight is giving away $25,000 in prize money (in conjunction with a few partners like Google) to the best applications [...]

In the past 48 hours, Congresspedia (in conjunction with The Literary Outpost and OpenLeft) launched the Superdelegate Transparency Project. My editor (working from a café in Argentina while on vacation) drafted a pretty great support structure, while we imported a bunch of data volunteers have collected on the Democratic nomination. The result is 55 pages [...]