Monthly Budget Review, August 2008. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for June and the Daily Treasury Statements for July.
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Daily Archives: August 6, 2008
The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina
Brookings – The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina – “Greater New Orleans approaches the end of its third year of recovery from a position of strength, with the vast majority of its pre-storm population and jobs. But many recovery trends have slowed or stagnated in the past year as tens of… Continue Reading
DOJ Releases Documents on the Anthrax Investigation
AP – US: Ivins solely responsible for anthrax attacks Press release: “As the Department indicated last week and has been widely reported, substantial progress has been made in the Amerithrax investigation in recent years. As you know, this investigation into the worst act of bioterrorism in U.S. history has been one of the largest and… Continue Reading
DOD OIG Audit: Status of Training Vehicles for U.S. Ground Forces Deploying in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
D-2008-115 Status of Training Vehicles for U.S. Ground Forces Deploying in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, August 6, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000LH-0108.001) “Our overall audit objective was to determine whether U.S. ground forces supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were receiving the training necessary to meet operational requirements. Specifically for this project, we determined whether levels… Continue Reading
DOE OIG: Management Controls over Changes to the Idaho Cleanup Project Contract Baseline
Department of Energy IG Audit Report – Management Controls over Changes to the Idaho Cleanup Project Contract Baseline, July 2008 “In Fiscal Year 2005, the Department of Energy (Department) awarded a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee coiltract to CH2M + WG Idaho, LLC (CWI) to lead environmental cleanup of its Idaho National Laboratory site. CWI’s contract requires it to… Continue Reading
DOE OIG: Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program
Department of Energy IG Audit Report: Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (U) – an unclassified summary of the classified Audit Report on “Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (DOE/IG-0799, July 31, 2008) “Nuclear weapons safety is of paramount importance to U.S. security. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requires… Continue Reading
Consumer Federation of America Analysis of Fuel Economy and Auto Sales
Consumer Federation of America, Fuel Economy and Auto Sales: Automaker and the National Highway Trafffic Safety Administration Ignore Market Signals, August 2008, by Mark Cooper: “This analysis explores important and fundamental flaws in the underlying economic assumptions made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in proposing its 2011-2015 fuel economy standards for autos… Continue Reading
