Bureau of Transportation Statistics: “U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4 percent fewer pilots and 32 percent fewer maintenance workers in 2007 than in 2000, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. The seven large network carriers employed 29.9 percent fewer pilots and 42.6 percent fewer maintenance workers in 2007 than… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
DOD OIG: Report on Air Force Air Combat Command Contracts
Report Number D-2008-094, Report on Air Force Air Combat Command Contracts, May 20, 2008. Continue Reading
DHS OIG: Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Procurement of Untrained Canines
OIG-08-46 – A Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Procurement of Untrained Canines (PDF, 35 pages) “From April 2006 through June 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection procured 322 untrained canines at a cost of $1.46 million, or an average price of $4,535 per canine. The costs incurred for the untrained canines were reasonable… Continue Reading
Crack Cocaine: Resentencing Goes Smoothly
Follow up to previous postings on retroactivity for sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine, from The Third Branch: “Federal district courts generally are coping well with the sudden increase in their workloads that occurred March 3, when a retroactive reduction in penalties for crack cocaine offenders took effect and more than 21,000 inmates became eligible for… Continue Reading
Social Security OIG: Quick Response Evaluation: Underpayments to Widows
Quick Response Evaluation: Underpayments to Widows (A-01-08-28116), May 22, 2008: “Our objective was to quantify the amount of Title II benefits owed a group of widows whose benefits were not properly adjusted at full retirement age (FRA).” Continue Reading
Iran Safeguards Report Sent to UN Security Council, IAEA Board
News release: “IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei today simultaneously circulated a report to the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors regarding Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”… Continue Reading
FDA Announces Sentinel System to Monitor Medical Product Safety
News release: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled plans for the Sentinel Initiative, a strategy to create and implement a national, integrated, electronic system for monitoring medical product safety. The resulting “Sentinel System” will strengthen FDA’s ability to track how drugs and medical products perform once they go on the market. Ultimately, this… Continue Reading
The Diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev: 1987-1988
May 23, 2008: “…the National Security Archive publishes its third installment of the diary of one of the main supporters of Mikhail Gorbachev and strongest proponents of glasnost during the perestroika period in the Soviet Union Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev. This section of the diary, covering two key years of history, is being published in… Continue Reading
Pet Food Makers Agree to $24 Million Settlement
Follow up to previous postings on tainted pet food recalls see Lisa Wade McCormick, ConsumerAffairs.com: “Parties involved in the litigation surrounding the largest pet food recall in U.S. history — blamed for the deaths and illnesses of thousands of dogs and cats in North America — have agreed to settle the case for $24 million.… Continue Reading
Memorial Day, May 26, 2008
Memorial Day – Have a a fun, safe, and memorable Memorial Day weekend using official U.S. government information. Continue Reading
State-by-State Costs of Child Poverty in the U.S.
Population Reference Bureau, State-by-State Costs of Child Poverty in the U.S. – by Kelvin Pollard (May 2008) “Research has shown that growing up in poverty leads to negative health, social, and economic consequences for children that often continue in adulthood. Compared with other children, children living below the poverty line are less healthy, have lower… Continue Reading
UN Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the UN
United Nations Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-third Session Supplement No. 55 released May 23, 2008. Continue Reading
