Beltway buzz
LittleSis for Washington insiders, in this week’s National Journal: The biggest value LittleSis offers is not so much the details it provides but the ties it highlights. “In a city
More names in the news
We’ve gotten a good response to the NameWire, so we are going to start publishing it daily, in a more prominent place on the front page, starting Monday. Let us
Testing out the Wire
Today we’re testing out a feature that may appear on the LittleSis start page daily. Tentatively called the NameWire, it is a collection of quick summaries of major news stories
Privatization advocates led Obama transportation review effort
The privatization of transportation infrastructure was supposed to be a Bush administration goal, but based on my (LittleSis-powered) review of Obama’s transition team, it is a major priority of the
Who is Mort Downey?
LittleSis brings transparency to the quiet names: people who are not necessarily officeholders, who may not be very well-known, but who exert significant influence over the policymaking process. They make
Geithner’s chief of staff lobbied Geithner’s Fed?
Mark Patterson, Tim Geithner’s new chief of staff and a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, appears to have been lobbying the Fed – Geithner was president of the New York Fed
Irony at Treasury
Is it just me or is it kind of ironic – also brash and stupid – for Tim Geithner to hire a lobbyist who has worked on immigration reform issues
Connecting the DOTs on Wall Street & Infrastructure
Last week, the news broke that infrastructure spending had been cut from the stimulus bill to make way for tax cuts. Congressman Jim Oberstar (D-MN), chairman of the House Transportation
Obama Announces Recovery.gov
In first YouTube address (seen below), Obama announced Recovery.gov, a new government website that will catalog how the $825 billion economic stimulus package is spent. OpenCongress notes: Recovery.gov – will
WaPo asks: Who Runs Gov?
Yesterday’s launch of WhoRunsGov, a Washington Post site, marks an interesting development in the history of the transparency movement: it is a groundbreaking attempt by mainstream media to shed light