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Welcome to Sunshine Week

ryanteaguebeckwith — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:00:00 -0400

Welcome to Sunshine Week!

All this week, state newspapers will be looking at public records and open government here in North Carolina, beginning with interviews with statewide candidates in the Sunday paper.

Here at Under the Dome, we'll also be looking more closely at what we call "online sunshine" — the use of the Internet by state government to make records available.

Pittenger: Webcast legislature

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:04:14 -0500

Robert Pittenger wants to Webcast the legislature.

Virginia tries YouTube legislature

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:10:34 -0500

What would a YouTube legislature look like?

Virginia is about to find out. Using a $2,500 grant from the Sunlight Foundation, the nonprofit Richmond Sunlight Web site will purchase the closed-circuit video of an entire legislative session.

The video will then be converted to QuickTime, posted on the online video-sharing site YouTube on a daily basis and integrated into the nonprofit's Web site.

A YouTube for state government

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:16:14 -0500

Earlier this week, 810,000 people watched Barack Obama's response to the State of the Union.

Not in person. Not on television. On YouTube .

A checklist for online sunshine

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:05:53 -0500

The Sunlight Foundation has a checklist for online sunshine.

The goals were developed as part of its Open House Project, which aims to make the U.S. House of Representatives more available online. But they would be a good starting point for any such effort.

NAACP calls for legislative cameras

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:01:19 -0500

Rev. William Barber II called for legislative committees to be televised.

The head of the state's NAACP said that too much of his group's agenda died in committee meetings that were not readily available to the public.

"We need to know what's happening in the committee meetings," he said. "If they can do it for the federal government on C-SPAN, we ought to be doing it in North Carolina. Bottom line: Open up this government."

Jensen endorses legislative webcams

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:22:40 -0500

Democratic pollster Tom Jensen says legislative webcams are a good idea.

In a post on the Public Policy Polling blog, he writes that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Graham's proposal of live streaming video of the legislature and conference rooms "just makes sense."