Comments on: Cit-J Project Aim: Expose What Congress Wants to Hide http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kaaiman » Sunlight! Internet+journalistiek=transparante overheid http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Kaaiman » Sunlight! Internet+journalistiek=transparante overheid Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:05:01 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/#comment-471 [...] Er is al veel over te doen: lees maar bij Pressthink, Citizen Media, PJNet en de editorial van de deelnemende Examiner. [...] [...] Er is al veel over te doen: lees maar bij Pressthink, Citizen Media, PJNet en de editorial van de deelnemende Examiner. [...]

]]> By: Media SITREP » Where’s the Pork? http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Media SITREP » Where’s the Pork? Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:08:36 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/#comment-470 [...] I’ve been excited by anyone by the efforts of both NZ Bear’s Porkbusters and the Sunlight Foundation to root out government waste. Plenty of web luminaries are chatting up today’s rollout of the Exposing Earmarks project; I found Jay Rosen’s summary of the movement (which includes Josh Marshall and Glenn Reynolds) particularly helpful. I set aside some time to play around with the G maps mash-up of HHS appropriations earmarks, starting with two my two most recent homes, Chicago and Philadelphia. Living in Chicago, where some official or other always seems to be on trial or under investigation, I have no lack of enthusiasm for identifying waste. Despite this skepticism, Chicago’s cut of the federal pie seems pretty legit: funding for hospitals, housing assistance for homeless families, and education. The map for Philly lists a couple of projects that raise  questions, but overall, I can’t complain about well regarded workforce training programs and health care.  So, pork pickings are slim in two of the cities with with worst reputations for waste. Coincidence– or is there less pork than was feared? [...] [...] I’ve been excited by anyone by the efforts of both NZ Bear’s Porkbusters and the Sunlight Foundation to root out government waste. Plenty of web luminaries are chatting up today’s rollout of the Exposing Earmarks project; I found Jay Rosen’s summary of the movement (which includes Josh Marshall and Glenn Reynolds) particularly helpful. I set aside some time to play around with the G maps mash-up of HHS appropriations earmarks, starting with two my two most recent homes, Chicago and Philadelphia. Living in Chicago, where some official or other always seems to be on trial or under investigation, I have no lack of enthusiasm for identifying waste. Despite this skepticism, Chicago’s cut of the federal pie seems pretty legit: funding for hospitals, housing assistance for homeless families, and education. The map for Philly lists a couple of projects that raise  questions, but overall, I can’t complain about well regarded workforce training programs and health care.  So, pork pickings are slim in two of the cities with with worst reputations for waste. Coincidence– or is there less pork than was feared? [...]

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Seth Finkelstein Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:01:47 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/08/15/cit-j-project-aim-expose-what-congress-wants-to-hide/#comment-469 Sir Thomas More: Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales? [and that's as much I as I think I can safely say :-( :-( :-(] Sir Thomas More: Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales?

[and that's as much I as I think I can safely say :-( :-( :-( ]

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