New York Times
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — In his first full day at the White House almost 14 months ago, President Obama declared openness and transparency to be touchstones of his administration, and he ordered federal agencies to make it easier for the public to get information on the workings of government.
Indeed, Mr. Obama’s administration [...]

Marta H. Mossburg
March 16, 2010

This week is “Sunshine Week,” launched to promote government transparency at the local, state and federal level.
While Gov. Martin O’Malley often touts how many statistics his administration puts on the Web, this week is a great opportunity to point out how the state could improve citizen access [...]

By Phillip Moyer |
Nevada’s county websites have received a collective grade of “F” from Sunshine Review, a non-profit organization that promotes transparency from both state and local governments.
The grade is part of Sunshine Review’s My Government Website project, which ambitiously aims to evaluate the transparency websites of each city, county, school district and state agency [...]

I’m not sure how much I have to add to this. Frankly I’m going to let Google’s new Public Data Explorer do all the work.
Their new program creates interactive maps and charts that really put things in perspective. One of their examples shows unemployment gains and losses since January 1990 using data from the U.S. [...]

By: Mark Tapscott
Washington Examiner
Editorial Page Editor

President Obama has promised to make the federal government more transparent to citizens than it has ever before been, and his administration has launched a number of initiatives in the executive branch designed to achieve that goal.
How is the Obama administration doing on this score? Changing the way the federal [...]