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Last night I finally got around to checking out MAPLight.org.
Those of you who haven’t seen it should stop reading this post and go check it out. It’s amazing.
The site has nothing to do with maps – it’s about Money And Politics, and shining lots light on the subject in California.
Like Washingtonpost.com’s Congressional Votes Database, MAPLight […]

Malcolm Gladwell’s article in last week’s New Yorker, Open Secrets, is well worth the read.
The piece is build on a distinction between puzzles and mysteries:
Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts are a puzzle. We can’t find him because we don’t have enough information. The key to the puzzle will probably come from someone close to bin Laden, […]

When I took my first look at the data for our Massachusetts campaign finance maps this fall, I nearly jumped out of my seat.
According to the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance, my mother had given more than the legal limit to Deval Patrick. It turned out that there had been a credit-card foul-up, […]

If you’ve been experimenting with Atlas, our new mapping tool, you may have noticed that it’s easy to include Wikipedia content on your maps.
Type in a city — say, “New Bedford, MA” — and you’ll be able to pull up a list of Wikipedia articles related to that city (”New England”,”Towns in Massachusetts”,”Bristol County, Massachusetts”,”Coastal […]

The Washington Post says the Senate should get with the program and start filing their campaign finance reports electronically.
We thoroughly agree.