Day 3! Today’s blog I’m thankful for is Missouri’s Turner Report who’s investigating has been a Local Sunlight staple. The author Randy Turner, a former  journalist, covers Missouri politics and is not afraid to do some digging.  For example, this...

1) Big Obama donors complain that they aren’t getting enough perks for all the money they helped raise. Didn’t Obama and his team realize that you need to pamper wealthy donors or else they turn into petulant children? 2) A retiring Democratic...

Throughout this year I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at the connections between powerful players in the health care debate and their former staffers turned health care lobbyists. The reason to highlight these connections is simple: it shows how...

For my 2nd installment of 24 days of Local Sunlight, I want to give a shout out to Kansas Meadowlark, for an excellent collection of watch dog news and some  independent research.  Kansas Meadowlark has been researching campaign donations for years...

We’ve put up a new database. On Monday, the House published their Statements of Disbursements online for the first time, giving us a new digital view into how the US House spends public funds. Today, the Sunlight Foundation is releasing a searchable...