Sunlight Foundation - Check Out the Open States Beta Site
"If you don't read the Sunlight Labs blog as religiously as I do (you should!), you might miss that our Open States project now has a public beta site up and running. Users can find who their state reps are, their voting record and contact information, the most recent actions taken by the legislature and search the full text of current and past bills. The OpenStates.org site is now the best place to find information on the activities in these 20 state legislatures: Alaska, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin with more coming soon.
For more information on the new site read my colleague James Turk's post here. Also be sure to play with the iOS app or, if you're a developer, use the API and join the Google Group. Our Scout project incorporates the Open States API to allow users to follow and search bills in all 50 states.
..."
The best part?
An API, bulk downloads, RSS feeds, and even the source to the entire site!
If you're looking for data about what your state government is doing or want to write an app that provides that data, Open : States looks like a must use resource.
No comments:
Post a Comment
NOTE: Anonymous Commenting has been turned off for a while... The comment spammers are just killing me...
ALL comments are moderated. I will review every comment before it will appear on the blog.
Your comment WILL NOT APPEAR UNTIL I approve it. This may take some hours...
I reserve, and will use, the right to not approve ANY comment for ANY reason. I will not usually, but if it's off topic, spam (or even close to spam-like), inflammatory, mean, etc, etc, well... then...
Please see my comment policy for more information if you are interested.
Thanks,
Greg
PS. I am proactively moderating comments. Your comment WILL NOT APPEAR UNTIL I approve it. This may take some hours...