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Adding Full Text Search to Open States

Adding Full Text Search to Open States

For years, the most requested feature on Open States has been the ability to search all legislation by keyword, and to receive updates…
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James Turk
Introducing the new openstates.org

Introducing the new openstates.org

Just 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…
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James Turk

Happy 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.
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James Turk
2019 Session Updates

2019 Session Updates

We’re getting our data ready for 2019 as legislatures come back into session.
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James Turk
More Ways to Get State Legislative Data

More Ways to Get State Legislative Data

The 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…
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James Turk

New Directions

There’s been some radio silence here lately that has led to a few people asking about bigger picture questions, and we wanted to address…
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James Turk

Google Summer of Code — Crowdsourcing & Scraper Fixing

Hello everyone!
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Bikram Bharti

Wrapping up my Open States contract

This is my last week of my three-month stint working full-time on Open States.
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Miles Watkins
Open States progress report, March 2

Open States progress report, March 2

Hi again! Checking in with another progress update, as I begin my third and final month staffed full-time on Open States.
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Miles Watkins

Open States & Google Summer of Code 2018

We’re excited to announce that Open States has been accepted as a participating organization in Google Summer of Code 2018!
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James Turk
Open States progress report, February 2

Open States progress report, February 2

Hi all! As promised, touching base with a quick update on my Open States progress from the past couple weeks.
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Miles Watkins
Using state flags as Slack emoji

Using state flags as Slack emoji

Want to rep your home state in Slack? Or travel around a lot, and want to use your Slack status to represent your location? Want to react…
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Miles Watkins
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