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Daily Archives: August 17, 2006

Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership

Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA: “Women-owned firms increased nearly 20 percent over the latest period studied, according to a report, Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Women’s Business Ownership, released by the Office of Advocacy.” Full Report (45 pages, PDF) Research Summary Press Release Continue Reading

NY Public Library Project to Update Access to Reference Works

New York Times – With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer: “Librarians have begun a yearlong project to reorganize, reclassify and update the roughly 25,000 reference works on the room’s open shelves. When they are done, officials promise, readers will have a much easier time locating… Continue Reading

Federal Judge Rules NSA Domestic Surveillance Program Unconstitutional

Via ACLU, ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision,(8/17/2006) Via U.S. District Court, ED of Michigan, ACLU v National Security Agency, 44 pages, PDF. “Description: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and… Continue Reading