Press release: “A new study, House Prices in America, using Global Insight’s extensive proprietary databases on the housing market – which combined data and forecasts for home prices, home sales, housing stock, and household income with a methodology developed by the economics department of National City Corporation examines current and expected housing prices in the 317 largest U.S. Metropolitan areas.”
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Daily Archives: June 12, 2006
FDA's Counterfeit Drug Task Force Report: 2006 Update
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA or Agency) Counterfeit Drug Task Force: 2006 Update, released June 8, 2006. “Counterfeit prescription drugs are illegal, generally unsafe, and pose a serious threat to the public health. Many are visually indistinguishable from authentic drugs… We have witnessed an increase in counterfeiting activities and a more sophisticated ability to introduce… Continue Reading
GAO Warns of Future Problems With FBI IT Infrastructure Modernization Project
Follow-up to postings on the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program, today GAO released a report, FBI Trilogy: Responses to Posthearing Questions, Full-text GAO-06-853R, which stated in part, “…unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) strengthens its controls over contractor payments and purchased equipment, future projects, including the new Sentinel project, will be highly vulnerable… Continue Reading
Arguments Heard on Constitutionality of NSA Domestic Surveillance
Arguments by the DOJ (Anthony J. Coppolino) and the ACLU were heard today in U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan. The government maintains that the domestic surveillance program is legal. Continue Reading
FDA Offers Food Safety Info Online and By Phone
FDA Food Safety Website “For general food safety questions, call the FDA Food Safety Hotline at 1-800-723-3366. If the situation is critical, phone FDA’s emergency number, (301) 443-1240, which is staffed 24 hours a day. If your questions involve meat or poultry products, call the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s hotline at 1-800-535-4555.” Continue Reading
Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA)
Available today, Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA) Press release: Google Announces Major Imagery Update For Google Earth, New Tools And Innovations in Mapping. Continue Reading
GAO Releases Trio of Surveys on Election Issues
The following were released on June 8, 2006 (all in PDF): Elections: 2005 Survey of Local Election Jurisdictions, full-text GAO-06-452SP, June 6, 2006. “The purpose of the survey was to collect nationwide information on a range of election topics that included voter registration, absentee voting, early voting, poll workers, polling places, voter education, voting methods… Continue Reading
List Compiled of Supreme Court Law Clerks Over the Years
Hosted by Wikipedia, this List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States is a collaborative work in progress, may contain errors and never be complete, but is interesting nevertheless. Continue Reading
FBI Releases Preliminary Crime Statistics 2005
Press release: “The FBI released the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2005 today, which showed a mixed direction in crime nationwide: the number of violent crime offenses rose 2.5 percent, but the number of property crime offenses decreased 1.6 percent when compared with data from 2004. The FBI collected these preliminary data from 12,485… Continue Reading
Texas State Bar 2006 Short Story Winners
Kudos to Kathy Biehl, whose short story, Accounting for the Stars, was awarded third place this year. The list of 2006 Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Finalists is here. Continue Reading
The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States
CRS Report, The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States, May 5, 2006 (31 pages, PDF): “The objective of this report is to highlight some of the demographic changes that have already occurred since 1950 and to illustrate how these and future trends will reshape the nation in the decades to come (through 2050).” Continue Reading
