Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group

1. Super PAC profile: Ending Spending aids Palin-endorsed Senate hopeful in Nebraska

   By Kathy Kiely May 15, 2012 3:27 p.m.
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2. Momma's boy: Santorum holds congressional record for 'mother'

   By Kathy Kiely May 11, 2012 9:19 a.m.
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3. Fact checking group accuses Romney super PAC of spending $20 million on deceptive ads

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 30, 2012 4:19 p.m.

   Restore Our Future, the super PAC backing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, spent more than $20 million on deceptive ads in early primary and caucus states, according to a just-released study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. That figure includes more than $9 million in ads distorting the record of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is set to endorse Romney on Wednesday.

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4. Gingrich super PAC backers pulled the plug before he did?

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 25, 2012 11:28 a.m.

   The latest news reports say that Newt Gingrich plans to drop his roller coaster of a presidential bid next week but Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker suggests that the former House speaker's biggest money backers may already have pulled the plug.

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5. Kent State student journalists have tough time prying open TV political ad files

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 24, 2012 2:32 p.m.
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6. Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Holden is a magnet for outside spending

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 23, 2012 1:05 p.m.

   Tuesday's battle for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's newly-redrawn 17th Congressional District has emerged as the biggest money magnet so far for outside groups spending on House primaries, data compiled by the Sunlight Foundation's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker shows. 

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7. Who funded pro-Romney ad in South Carolina? We may never know

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 19, 2012 12:26 p.m.

   The ever-hard to track Citizens for a Working America, last seen in Iowa making a big Christmas Eve ad buy on behalf of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has resurfaced in a new-old incarnation.

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8. Democrat, Republican political collectors ask FEC to OK texted contributions

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 11, 2012 10:36 p.m.

   The economy may be largely lackluster but the political sector is so flush with cash it appears on the verge of creating a whole new profession: Campaign contribution brokers.

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9. Biggest loser in Pennsylvania primary isn't Santorum

   By Kathy Kiely Apr 10, 2012 6:37 p.m.

   That sniffling sound you hear is not Rick Santorum's supporters bemoaning his decision Tuesday to pull the plug on his presidential campaign but the managers of the Keystone State's television stations counting the ad dollars they have lost. There are 46 of them, according to the Community Media Database created and maintained by Rob McCausland.

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10. Super PAC fallout: Stories we like

    By Kathy Kiely Apr 9, 2012 5:33 p.m.

    President Obama has stirred a lot of controversy with his comments about the Supreme Court, but you should hear what his 2008 opponent, Sen. John McCain, has to say about the justices.

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11. The best coverage money can buy? New Philly newspaper owners are old hands at exchanging money for influence

    By Kathy Kiely Apr 3, 2012 11:30 a.m.

    It had to have been a weird scene Monday at the headquarters of Philadelphia's two daily newspapers when some of the region's biggest political money men -- frequent targets of some of the journalists' aggressive coverage -- showed up to tell reporters they now own the place.

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12. New Sony president one half of SOPA power couple

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 30, 2012 6:27 p.m.

    Nicole Seligman's newly official promotion to president of the Sony Corporation is the latest evidence of the powerful political connections that have been amassed by interests battling to stop online piracy, and enhances the status of what might be called SOPA's power couple.

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13. Why DeMint's donation to a super PAC could give his party heartburn

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 21, 2012 9:49 a.m.

    Super PACs have given GOP megadonors new avenues to make campaign contributions at a faster clip than ever, but in at least one quarter of the party establishment, they may be causing some heartburn this week.

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14. On patent law, Mavs owner Mark Cuban knows the score

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 15, 2012 4:16 p.m.

    When two popular Internet utilities get in a high-priced legal fight and a famously outspoken NBA owner jumps in the middle, it's hard not to keep your eye on the roundball -- especially on the day  March Madness gets underway. 

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Investigations by Sunlight Foundation reporter Kathy Kiely