Last week, we finally launched a project that has been on my to-do list for the last two years: California’s first-ever searchable database of lobbying interests, which allows users to quickly see all of the special interest groups that lobbied any given bill in the state legislature. It had been on my list for months to crank […]
Chase Davis
Director of Technology
Chase Davis is the director of technology for California Watch and its parent organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting. He also writes about money and politics issues for California Watch. Chase previously worked as an investigative reporter at The Des Moines Register and the Houston Chronicle and is a founding partner of the media-technology firm Hot Type Consulting. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism.
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We’re open sourcing Politics Verbatim
When we launched Politics Verbatim last year, a fair number of news organizations asked us how they could create a similar service for their local communities. Well, a year later, we have an answer: Have at it. Since the California governor’s race ended last year, PV has mostly been sitting around gathering dust. So we thought: Why not […]
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Jerry Brown’s 1979 ‘Special List’ highlights eclectic relationships
When Jerry Brown was governor three decades ago, his staff was instructed to give special access to dozens of confidants whose requests were supposed to be routed straight to Brown, administrative records show. READ FULL STORY | DOCUMENTS | POLITICS VERBATIM |