1. Follow the (Airport) Money

    By Bill Allison Oct 7, 2009 6:30 p.m.

    Over the past five years, the Federal Aviation Administration has handed out nearly $18 billion in grants for almost 19,000 airport projects. In theory, these projects -- funded through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program -- are supposed to enhance safety or protect the environment. In fact, according to a Subsidyscope analysis of FAA data (neatly assembled into a searchable database by Sunlight's Kaitlin Lee), a fair amount of money has gone toward the building of parking lots and other questionable things.

    Read all about it

  2. Turning 100 Days, 100 Projects into data

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 3:50 p.m.

    Chauncey Thorn of CongressSpacebook has made the 100 Days, 100 Projects report searchable. And I've slapped together a little Dabble database here that's a work in progress -- note all the "not specified" that run all the way through it.

  3. Why there's so little spending data on Recovery.gov

    By Bill Allison May 29, 2009 2:14 a.m.

    Because apparently, there's not all that much spending yet:

    Read all about it

  4. Oblique allusion to contract data available on Recovery.gov

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 8:36 p.m.

    We have a partial winner. My colleague Greg Elin has tracked down, on Recovery.gov, this announcement:

    Read all about it

  5. Jake Tapper finds $27 million=$59,000

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:54 p.m.

    I am still playing around with the spread sheet of the 100 projects, which I'll be posting in some form (probably Dabble) in a bit. Right now I'm looking to see if I can find any of these projects listed on Recovery.gov, the agency Recovery Web pages, FedBizOpps.gov, USASpending.gov, and other places. Not sure I'll do this for all 100 projects.

    Read all about it

  6. Clip job

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 5:02 a.m.

    Of the 100 projects listed in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report, 37 come from newspaper, wire service and broadcast outlets. So why is government depending on Nexis searches for its data on Recovery spending?

    Read all about it

  7. West Virginia...

    By Bill Allison May 28, 2009 3:14 a.m.

    ...is apparently in the Midwest. Look at project numbers 56 and 57 in the 100 Days, 100 Projects report...

Search the Blog

Real Time Ticker

Recent Posts

Reporting we're watching

Popular tags

2012 election Ad Ad Hoc AIG Arab Spring Barack Obama BP Campaign contributions Campaign Finance Center for Responsive Politics Citizens United consumer banking Contracting Correspondence Data Mine datamine Disclose act Distributed Research Dodd-Frank Earmarks FARA FEC Finance Data Catalog Financial Bailout Financial Reform FLIT FOIA follow the unlimited money Foreign lobbying Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker Fundraising Handy Tools health care Hoc Independent Expenditure Independent expenditures investment James Bopp Jr. Lobbying Logs_6553 Market Meltdown Media Medicare meeting logs Mitt Romney Newt Gingrich OGD Open Government Directive Party Time PMA Group Recovery Recovery.gov Rep. John Murtha Research revolving door Rick Perry Rick Santorum Ron Paul Sen. Christopher Dodd states of transparency stimulus Sunlight Live super committee super congress Super PAC Super PACs supercommittee Supercongress TARP Taxpayers for Common Sense