Press release: “Americans prize public library service in the Internet Age, a new research report released today by the nonpartisan public opinion research organization Public Agenda concludes. As local communities and states contend with tight budget constraints for public services, the public sees libraries as potential solutions to many communities’ most pressing problems, from universal access to computers to the need for better options for keeping teens safe and productive.”
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Daily Archives: June 13, 2006
New Competitive Intelligence Survey Available
“The Competitive Intelligence Foundation’s State of the Art: Competitive Intelligence Research Report ($) helps chart the progress of the competitive intelligence (CI) field. This report provides CI practitioners significant information on how competitive intelligence can support their organizational environment information that can be used by all practitioners to improve their effectiveness.” Free executive summary… Continue Reading
Managing Information and Resource Sharing in a Newsroom
The programmer as journalist: a Q&A with Adrian Holovaty – Washingtonpost.com’s Web tech guru answers questions about programming’s role in news reporting and presentation. Continue Reading
Amendments to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regs Favor Industry
LA Times reported (reg req’d): EPA Rule Loosened After Oil Chief’s Letter to Rove – The White House says the executive’s appeal had no role in changing a measure to protect groundwater. Critics call it a political payoff. Related government document: Federal Register: June 12, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 112, Rules and Regulations,Page 33628-33640: “SUMMARY:… Continue Reading
Committee to Review Post Katrina Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
“Tomorrow, the Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Michael McCaul (TX) will hold a hearing to examine waste, fraud and abuse of federal funds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of victims of the disaster were given debit cards and other types of tax payer funds to help them pay for food and shelter. The hearing… Continue Reading
CRS Report, Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, CRS Report, June 2, 2006 (47 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Treasury IG Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract
Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General on Tax Administration Report: Invoice Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract – TIRNO-03-K-00191, June 2006 (30 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Review of National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2007
Democratic Policy Committee Report, June 12, 2006: “Summary, S. 2766, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, would authorize $467.7 billion in budget authority for defense programs in Fiscal Year 2007, an increase of $26.2 billion, or 4.1 percent in real terms, above the amount authorized for Fiscal Year 2006. It also would… Continue Reading
Report Highlights Frequency of Congress Overriding State Laws
Press release: “Rep. Waxman releases a report evaluating how many times Congress has voted over the last five years to preempt state laws and regulations. Republican leaders in Congress and President Bush have repeatedly promised to respect the role of states as laboratories of democracy. But the report documents that there is a wide gulf… Continue Reading
New Searchable Database of Congressional and NJ Legislative Documents
From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey… Continue Reading
New Corporate Affiliations Database Service
“The CorporateAffiliations.com database provides corporate linkage information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions – down to the seventh level of corporate linkage…[the] database is compiled and updated from information supplied by the listed companies themselves, as well as from research gathered from business publications and annual… Continue Reading
