Sunshine Week is a broad-based initiative intended to focus public concern over the growth of official secrecy.
During the week of March 13, 2006, there will be a series of events exploring the diverse and increasing barriers that obstruct public access to government information.
Details and educational resources are available on the Sunshine Week web site.
The potential implication of these evidence gaps becomes more consequential when you look at how institutions actually make decisions day to day.
Every new institution inherits something – existing incentives, existing staff, decades of prior investment that shaped what’s possible.
This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and scrutinize government operations.
America’s affordability problem is bigger than home prices and rents. The best housing policies make it easier to build homes, and recognize how housing connects to other domains.