James TurkinOpen StatesAdding Full Text Search to Open StatesFor years, the most requested feature on Open States has been the ability to search all legislation by keyword, and to receive updates…2 min read·Sep 9, 2019----
James TurkinOpen StatesHappy 10th Birthday, Open States!It was 10 years ago today that the first post about what would become Open States was made on the Sunlight Labs blog.1 min read·Feb 26, 2019----
James TurkinOpen StatesIntroducing the new openstates.orgJust over a year ago, we gave a preview of some work that team member Olivia Cheng was working on. As of today, we’re proud to announce…3 min read·Jan 10, 2019----
James TurkinOpen States2019 Session UpdatesWe’re getting our data ready for 2019 as legislatures come back into session.2 min read·Jan 3, 2019----
James TurkinOpen StatesMore Ways to Get State Legislative DataThe Open States API has been putting legislative data in people’s hands since 2010. In that time we’ve served well over a billion API…3 min read·Nov 5, 2018----
James TurkinOpen StatesNew DirectionsThere’s been some radio silence here lately that has led to a few people asking about bigger picture questions, and we wanted to address…6 min read·Oct 19, 2018----
James TurkReclaiming Time with Twitter-as-RSSthe canonical home for this post is now https://jamesturk.net/posts/reclaiming-time-with-twitter-rss/3 min read·May 3, 2018--1--1
James TurkinOpen StatesOpen States & Google Summer of Code 2018We’re excited to announce that Open States has been accepted as a participating organization in Google Summer of Code 2018!2 min read·Feb 12, 2018--1--1
James TurkinOpen StatesBringing on Support for the 2018 Legislative SessionsI’m excited to announce that Miles Watkins, a fellow member of the Open States core team, will be working on the project professionally…2 min read·Jan 10, 2018----
James TurkinOpen StatesIntroducing the Upcoming Open States GraphQL APIThe Open States API is arguably the most important part of the project after the scrapers. The API was launched in 2010 and now sees…4 min read·Dec 21, 2017----