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Daily Archives: August 7, 2006
HHS OIG Audit on Medicare Drug Discount Card Program Sponsor Public Sector Partners
Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General –“Report on the Medicare Drug Discount Card Program Sponsor Public Sector Partners,” (A-06-05-00062) July 10, 2006 [HTML] [PDF] Executive Summary: “The objectives of our review were to determine whether Public Sector Partners (PSP) complied with Federal requirements to (1) ensure that beneficiaries did not exceed… Continue Reading
ABA Report on Women of Color in Law Firms
Press release: “According to “Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms,” a report by The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, women of color experience unique disadvantages based on race in addition to gender. White women experience such events based on gender alone, men of color experience such events based on race alone,… Continue Reading
Resource on Marketing Your Practice with a Blog
Blawg: Marketing Your Practice with a Weblog, by Jim Calloway and Tom Mighell. Continue Reading
GAO Letter to Congress on TSA Secure Flight Program
Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Intelligence: Responses to Posthearing Questions Regarding Secure Flight, Full text GAO-06-1051R, August 4, 2006. “This letter responds to Congress’s request for additional information related to Congress’s June 14, 2006, hearing on the progress and challenges of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Office of Intelligence. As discussed in the statement at… Continue Reading
Army's Future Combat Systems Program and Alternatives
CBO: The Army’s Future Combat Systems Program and Alternatives, August 2006 Continue Reading
TRAC's Immigration Website Adds Performance Info on Over 200 Judges
“TRAC’s Immigration website now contains detailed performance information about most of the 200-plus immigration judges in the United States. Included are year-by-year percentages of asylum matters denied by each judge, comparisons in denial rates with other judges in the same immigration court as well as with all judges in the U.S., and information about the… Continue Reading
FirstGov and FEMA Hurricane Season Sites
Learn more about hurricanes at FirtGov’s Hurricane site. Resources include: general information about hurricanes; preparing for hurricanes; state hurricane information; what to do after a hurricane. FEMA: 2006 Hurricane Season – links to resources on how to: Protect Your Family; Protect Your Property or Business Continue Reading
Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
Follow-up to August 1, 2006 posting, Findings of Upcoming Report on Administration Policies on WMD and NSA, see the Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff: The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance. (This Report is… Continue Reading
SEC v. Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovi
Litigation Release No. 19794 / August 7, 2006, SEC v. Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovi, 03 Civ. 4070 (RJH) (S.D.N.Y.) Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic Agree to Settle SEC Insider Trading Charges “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has reached an agreement to settle insider trading charges against Martha Stewart and Peter… Continue Reading
StopBadware.org Begins Issuing Warnings to Google Users
StopBadware.org Blog: “We’re entering a new phase here at StopBadware.org. Googlewhich is one of our partnerswill present people with a warning before they visit websites that have been reported to StopBadware.org as sites that distribute badware. These warnings currently link to a general page on StopBadware.org, but as we finish researching sites, we’ll replace the… Continue Reading
