From WSJ free contents, Walt Mossberg’s September 21 column reviews several communications tools that consumers may want to consider purchasing to facilitate uninterrupted communications during emergencies.
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Daily Archives: September 20, 2005
Floodplain Managers Outline Recovery Plan
The Association of State Floodplain Managers published a White Paper, Hurricane Katrina: Reconstruction Through Mitigation (6 pages, PDF) which merits review. Also note that the organization’s Hurricane Katrina Resource Page provides links to key government resources with a focus on “policy, recovery and economics.” Continue Reading
Postal Rate Commission Website Links to Archival Document Repository
The legislative history of the Postal Rate Commission enabling statute is available on the agency website. To locate it, look at the top of the homepage navigation bar, and click on ARCHIVES. This in turn will take you to this page, where the database hosting the legislative history is located. In addition to this resource,… Continue Reading
National Archives Offers Assistance to Gulf States
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The… Continue Reading
Business Week Highlights “Best of The Web”
From BusinessWeek.com, Editor’s Picks for Best of the Web, with a discrete number of choices in categories ranging from research, to blogs, tech news, politics, shopping and music. Continue Reading
New National Security Affairs Blog
The September 14 launch of William M. Arkin’s blog, “Early Warning”, with its focus on “national and homeland security,” was noted by Secrecy News for establishing what promises to be a significant and useful online archive of government documents not readily available otherwise. See also Arkin’s book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and… Continue Reading
