Via State Department: “The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners. Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Seasonal Variation in Traffic Congestion: Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Technical Report: Seasonal Variation in Traffic Congestion: A Study of Three U.S. Cities, August 2008, TR-005 “Most urban areas of the country face rising congestion levels as increasing volumes of vehicular traffic exceed the capacity of the transportation system. The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) reported that, in 2005, Traffic congestion… Continue Reading
Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States
The Sentencing Project, Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States: “Since the founding of the country, most states in the U.S. have enacted laws disenfranchising convicted felons and ex-felons. In the last 30 years, due to the dramatic expansion of the criminal justice system, these laws have significantly affected the political voice of many American… Continue Reading
New Findings Provide Clearest Picture Yet of How Enrollees in the World Trade Center Health Registry Were Affected by 9/11
News release: “A new analysis from the World Trade Center Health Registry provides the most comprehensive picture yet of how 9/11 affected enrollees physical and mental health two to three years after the disaster. The report released by the Health Department in the Journal of Urban Health, also includes the first estimates of respiratory… Continue Reading
Open Source Tobacco Wiki Research Project
“Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been… Continue Reading
ACLU Voices Concerns About New New FBI Guidelines To Prevent Terror
New York Times: “The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct evidence of wrongdoing. Justice Department officials said the plan, which is likely to be completed by the end of… Continue Reading
WSJ: Why Libraries Are Back in Style
WSJ (no fee) – Why Libraries Are Back in Style: “In the latest annual National Association of Home Builders consumer survey, 63% of home buyers said they wanted a library or considered one essential, a percentage that has been edging up for the past few years. Many mass-market home builders are including libraries in their… Continue Reading
Cmte. on Homeland Security: Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement
Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement, Majority Staff Report, September 2008. “Open source intelligence products can and should be shared with appropriate Federal, State, local and tribal law enforcement, and the private sector because of their unclassified nature. Unfortunately, DHS has not effectively exploited this… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Mineral Revenues, Federal Courthouse Construction, Oil and Gas Royalties
Mineral Revenues: Data Management Problems and Reliance on Self-Reported Data for Compliance Efforts Put MMS Royalty Collections at Risk, GAO-08-893R, September 12, 2008 Federal Courthouse Construction: Estimated Costs to House the L.A. District Court Have Tripled and There Is No Consensus on How to Proceed, GAO-08-889, September 12, 2008 Oil and Gas Royalties: The Federal… Continue Reading
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power – The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power – The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness, Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics, Council on Foreign Relations Press, September 2008 “The problems associated with U.S. indebtedness cannot be addressed overnight. But the report proposes ways for the United States to guard against the effects of a disruption in foreign financing,… Continue Reading
Baucus, Grassley Offer Tax Incentives for Clean Energy, Homegrown Jobs
Finance leaders seek to extend wind, solar, other incentives America’s energy, economic future: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today unveiled energy tax legislation that they intend to bring to the Senate for consideration this month. The Finance tax measures seek to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil… Continue Reading
Fact Sheet: Justice Department Counter-Terrorism Efforts Since 9/11
DOJ Fact Sheet: Justice Department Counter-Terrorism Efforts Since 9/11, September 11, 2008 “Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the highest priority of the Justice Department has been to protect America against acts of terrorism. Despite repeated and sustained efforts by terrorists, there has not been another terrorist attack on American soil in the past… Continue Reading
