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Daily Archives: April 16, 2007
FDA Announces Recommendations to Reauthorize Medical Device User Fee Program
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today proposed recommendations to Congress for reauthorizing the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA II), which, if adopted, would help to ensure that safe and effective medical devices get to patients in a timely manner. FDA is accepting public comments on the proposal for… Continue Reading
U.S. Courts Report Bankruptcy Filings Plunged Last Year
Press release: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts dropped 70 percent in calendar year 2006, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. However, bankruptcies filed for the last three months of calendar year 2006 were the highest of any quarter in the calendar year. The statistics cover the first… Continue Reading
State Libraries Custom Search Engine
From Greg R. Notess, State Libraries: Custom Search Options Compared – “For the six search builders listed on the Customize Your Own Search Engine page, here are the search engines built using the state library sites from all 50 U.S. states, or at least as many as they can manage.” Continue Reading
2007 State of America's Libraries Report
ALA press release: “New data on U.S. libraries shows almost two billion served – Predicted demise due to Internet fails to materialize: Ten years after some experts predicted the demise of the nation’s system of libraries as a result of the Internet explosion, the most current national data on library use shows that the exact… Continue Reading
Law Review Article on First Amendment as Criminal Procedure
Solove, Daniel J., The First Amendment as Criminal Procedure. New York University Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 112, 2007. “This Article explores the relationship between the First Amendment and criminal procedure. These two domains of constitutional law have long existed as separate worlds, rarely interacting with each other despite the fact that many instances of… Continue Reading
State Department Fact Sheets on U.S. Missile Defense
Department of State, 16 April 2007, Missile Defense Assets To Provide Protection in Central Europe, U.S. and NATO missile defense efforts are designed to be complementary. Department of State, 16 April 2007, U.S. Has Offered Russia Role in Missile Defense Since 2001. Fact Sheet on U.S. missile defense assets in Europe U.S. will maintain command… Continue Reading
Committee Report – State of Veteran and Reservist Entrepreneurship
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, The State of Veteran and Reservist Entrepreneurship, March 22, 2007 (22 pages, PDF) “With nearly 25 million veterans in the United States, including 2.5 million service disabled veterans, there is a growing need for an increased commitment to helping America’s veterans and reservists succeed in business and the… Continue Reading
Pew Research Survey – What Americans Know: 1989-2007
Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions – What Americans Know: 1989-2007. Released April 15, 2007. “Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public’s news habits. But… Continue Reading
SBA Fact Sheet on Hurricane Katrina Recovery Contracts
SBA Fact Sheet on Hurricane Katrina Recovery Contracts, April 12, 2007. AP – SBA: Mistakes Made in Post-Katrina Loans Continue Reading
Fact Sheet: Proposed FISA Modernization Legislation
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, April 13, 2007, Fact Sheet: Proposed FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)Modernization Legislation “Key Provisions of this Bill Are: Updating the definition of electronic surveillance to account for the sweeping changes in telecommunications technology that have taken place. The proposed legislation is technology neutral. In contrast to the 1978… Continue Reading
Challenges Hampering IRS Infrastructure Upgrades Persist For Decades
IRS trudges on with aging computers – “More than 20 years after its first attempt at a massive upgrade of 1960s-era mainframes, the IRS still isn’t sure when the project will,” by Anne Broache, CNET News.com “The Internal Revenue Service has been trying for years to upgrade its antiquated mainframe computers, which process Americans’ tax… Continue Reading
