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Impressive Numbers for Year-One of the EarthKind Trials

How about changing the face of rose growing for home gardeners? That’s what curator Peter Kukielski hopes to accomplish with the EarthKind™ Rose Trials beds. [...]

2Day in #OpenGov 12/8/2011

Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is Thursday’s look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: Government … [...]

A Picture’s Worth: 20 Days of the Holiday Train Show

When schedules don’t meet up, living vicariously through your friends can be the next best thing to seeing the Holiday Train Show yourself. [...]

Add Gingrich to the Long List of Stealth Lobbyists

Here’s a riddle: What do you call it when someone earns millions of dollars from corporate clients, uses his relationships with the most influential officials in government to pursue those clients’ interests, and even has offices on K Street? Answ… [...]

Morning Eye Candy: Faux Frost

The frosted frills on this orchid are almost candy in themselves. [...]

The Occupation of K Street: Lobbying, Citizens United and the need for reform

Earlier today, protestors from OccupyDC headed over to the offices of the Podesta Group, a high profile lobbying firm, before joining hundreds (possibly thousands) of other Occupy protesters from across the U.S. in shutting down K Street. There’s ano… [...]

"Global Open Gov: What’s The Secret Sauce?" (Part 2)

In this second  in a three-part series, guest blogger Matt Rosenberg continues to reflect on the Open Government Partnership Egypt, for instance, could hardly be expected to commit now to a formal national plan for open government nor is it yet part … [...]

Tell Hayworth To Extend The Payroll Tax Cut

The current debate about the payroll tax cut shows Nan Hayworth's true colors: she supports tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires but opposes tax cuts for 160 million middle income American families. And Republicans are threatening to go hom… [...]

Tell Hayworth To Extend The Payroll Tax Cut

The current debate about the payroll tax cut shows Nan Hayworth's true colors: she supports tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires but opposes tax cuts for 160 million middle income American families. And Republicans are threatening to go hom… [...]

Obama’s Open Government Directive, Two Years On

Tomorrow is the two year anniversary of the Open Government Directive (OGD), the signature transparency policy issued by the Obama administration on December, 2009. The transparency issues facing the administration, both before and after the 2009 pol… [...]