News release: “The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods increased 1.4 percent in May, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. This rise followed a 0.2-percent advance in April and a 1.1-percent increase in March. At the earlier stages of processing, prices received by producers of intermediate… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
DOJ: Guidance on Submitting Updated Status Reports to the President's Management Council
“As part of the May 30, 2008 Attorney General’s Report to the President on agency progress under Executive Order 13,392, Improving Agency Disclosure of Information, the Attorney General recommended that agencies submit to the President’s Management Council an Updated Status Report concerning any deficiency reported by the agency in its Fiscal Year 2007 Annual FOIA… Continue Reading
Proposed Rulemaking: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in State and Local Government Services
Proposed Rulemaking: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in State and Local Government Services; Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities, [Federal Register: June 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 117)][Proposed Rules][Page 34508-34557] Continue Reading
Guide to WTO Trade and Labor Issues
WTO Trade and Labor Issues – Created by Stuart Basefsky for a presentation at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference in Seattle, Washington on June 16, 2008. Continue Reading
First-Quarter 2008 System Airline Financial Data
News release: First-Quarter 2008 System Airline Financial Data: Network Passenger Airlines Report Second Consecutive Quarterly Loss Margin – “A group of the seven network passenger airlines reported a system operating loss margin of 5.2 percent in the first quarter of 2008 for the second consecutive quarterly loss after 6 consecutive profitable quarters, the Bureau of… Continue Reading
Court Rules White House E-Mail Not Subject to FOIA
Follow up – related postings on missing White House emails, today’s news: News release: “Today, D.C. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an opinion in CREW v. Office of Administration, finding that the Office of Administration (OA) is not an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In May 2007, CREW sued OA… Continue Reading
Senate Finance Committee: Iran Sanctions Act of 2008
Finance Panel to Consider Baucus Iran Sanctions Plan: “Baucuss Iran sanctions plan reflects a number of elements in S. 970, an Iran sanctions bill on which the Committee held a hearing in April, but is written to ensure that America remains in compliance with World Trade Organization rules and to continue to allow limited sales… Continue Reading
New GAO Report: Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls
Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-08-836R, June 16, 2008 “Our fiscal year 2007 audit procedures identified 12 information security control deficiencies, all of which relate to general controls. Specifically, the control deficiencies identified were in the areas of entitywide security program planning and management, access control, and system software. In… Continue Reading
EPIC: Supreme Court Rejects Limits on FOIA Requests
EPIC: In a unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of individuals to request documents under the Freedom of Information Act, even if similar documents were previously requested by others. The Court rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s contention that it may ignore requests if the agency previously received identical requests from different requesters.… Continue Reading
Proposed Rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations
SEC Proposed Rules for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations(Release No. 34-57967, File No. S7-13-08) “Today, in the first of three related actions the Commission is proposing rule amendments that would impose additional requirements on nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) in order to address concerns about the integrity of their credit rating procedures and methodologies… Continue Reading
Five Year Action Plan to Cleanup the Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation
Five Year Action Plan to Cleanup the Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation, as requested by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, March 3, 2008 “Mine operators extracted nearly four million tons of uranium ore from 1944 to 1986 under lease agreements with the Navajo Nation. As a result, uranium mining has left the… Continue Reading
Effect of Payments Into Boeing Pension Funds on Economic Price Adjustment Clauses in DoD Contracts
DOD OIG: Effect of Payments Into Boeing Pension Funds on Economic Price Adjustment Clauses in DoD Contracts,May 28, 2008. Redacted, unclassified. Continue Reading
