We were on a break! GovGirl videos are coming back soon. Valentine’s Day 2012 marks one year since I launched GovGirl.com, and I want to say thank you to everyone who has kept up with us over the last year. I have exciting news! My last day with the City of Reno Nevada is onRead… Read more »
Via this tweet, we just discovered that the President’s budget proposes that the Senate should be required to electronically file their campaign finance reports. In this document, you can find the following section: The Budget proposes that Senate Campaign Committees berequired to file campaign finance reports electronically with the Federal Election Commission, in keeping withRead… Read more »
Robots and gentlepeople, it is with great pleasure that I announce (and humbly invite you to attend) Sunlight’s fifth TransparencyCamp, coming to the DC area this April 28th – 29th. If you know the drill and you’ve been waiting for the link, head here to register. Otherwise, sit a while and let me tell youRead… Read more »
The Australian Parliament House recently released their new website – a major step-up from the previous site. However in reading an article about it on ZDNet I discovered that the APH had, in the process, decided to block an entire top-level domain (.info) from view by the Parliament and the thousands of people working atRead… Read more »
Military defense contractors and lobbyists are rushing to support the wife of Congressional House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon in her bid for California state assembly, according to a Slate article earlier this month. The article reports that in the first few months of fundraising, Patricia McKeon was able to collect $19,200 from defenseRead… Read more »
Advanced Persistent Threats have been around for some years, and they are not going away The term Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is often regarded somewhat suspiciously by security professionals, seeing as it how it can be a buzzword that obscures actual analysis of the dynamics of cyber attacks or a diplomatic fiction because it’s notRead… Read more »
The Hokies vs. ‘Hoos Food Fight capitalizes on the fierce rivalry between Richmond area Virginia Tech and UVA alumni and fans by encouraging donations to the Central Virginia Food Bank. Seven years of this heated competition have yielded more than 236,000 meals for the hungry in central Virginia, with the ‘Hoos holding a 4 –Read… Read more »
HOUSE TRAVEL RULES IN THE NEWS. Roll Call. “Travel disclosure reports filed with the House Ethics Committee show that participants used an exemption that permits additional travel time to far-off locations and paid their own hotel bills for an extra day or two, allowing them to spend several days in Vegas and still accept round-tripRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — If you were living in a cave during the last quarter of 2011, you may have missed out on hearing about Pinterest – the hottest new social platform to hit the tech scene in some time. Judged by leading tech blog TechCrunch as the best new startup of 2011, PinterestRead… Read more »
Byron Tau makes a great point in Politico: Obama’s reversal on super PACs returns “to a system where corporate donors, unions and other wealthy individuals are able to pay big money for access to policymakers, lawmakers and key administration aides.” The President’s announcement not only opened the door to cabinet members and top White HouseRead… Read more »