via dcist: Christina SturdivantLooking to purchase a home near the Metro? Properties close to certain stations are considerably cheaper than others, according to real estate search site Estately, which analyzed pricing info from the last six months of home sales near each of the area’s stations. Today, the site released data showing a $700,000 price… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Army Data Strategy 2016
Army Data Strategy, February 2016 – Information Architecture Division, Army Architecture Integration Center HQDA CIO/G-6 Version 1. “As an architectural paradigm, the Army network, which is the Army’s portion of the DoD Information Network, is changing from a loose federation of stove piped IT systems to a single, integrated, service- oriented, information – sharing environment.… Continue Reading
Alternatives for Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive
“Presentation by Chad Shirley, CBO’s Deputy Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, at the Transportation Policy & Finance Summit of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). Federal spending on highways (or, synonymously, roads) totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. But that spending does not correspond very… Continue Reading
EFF – What We Talk About When We Talk About Apple and Compelled Speech
Via EFF – “Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing Apple to write—and sign—a custom version of iOS would violate the First Amendment rights of Apple and its programmers. That’s because the right to free speech sharply limits the government’s ability to… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Social Security Disability, Oil and Gas Management, U.S. Secret Service
Social Security Disability: SSA Could Increase Savings by Refining Its Selection of Cases for Disability Review, GAO-16-250: Published: Feb 11, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 14, 2016. Oil and Gas Management: Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Restructuring Has Not Addressed Long-Standing Oversight Deficiencies, GAO-16-245: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016. U.S.… Continue Reading
GAO – USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations
Bee Health: USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations, GAO-16-220: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016: “Honey bees and other managed and wild, native bees provide valuable pollination services to agriculture worth billions of dollars to farmers. Government and university researchers have documented declines in some… Continue Reading
Get Your Free Copy of the Consumer Action Handbook
“The Consumer Action Handbook is a free resource guide that provides general information on shopping for goods and services and tips about your consumer rights. The Handbook has information to help you file a complaint about a purchase and includes a sample complaint letter that you can use and send to a company. It also includes a consumer assistance… Continue Reading
Radiation expert reviews the ongoing impact of Fukushima catastrophe
Radiation expert Andrew Karam, who covered the disaster for Popular Mechanics in 2011 and later traveled to study the site, explains everything you need to know about Fukushima’s legacy and danger five years later. See also via Newsweek – “The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”: a subterranean… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – You Say Aggregate, I Say Curate…
Via LLRX.com – You Say Aggregate, I Say Curate…– Zena Applebaum, a law firm competitive intelligence director, defines an important development in the way that critical business information is shared within laws firms and similar organizations. Applebaum defines and aligns the role of “content curation,” a practice and skill wherein information from all the content… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The Mediachain Project: Developing a Global Creative Rights Database Using Blockchain Technology
Via LLRX.com – The Mediachain Project: Developing a Global Creative Rights Database Using Blockchain Technology – Alan Rothman’s article focuses on a creative, innovative effort to deploy the blockchain as a form of global registry of creative works ownership – specifically a global rights database for images. The co-founders of a new metadata protocol they… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Global Skills for U.S. JD Students
Via LLRXcom – Global Skills for U.S. JD Students – This article by Theresa Kaiser-Jarvis, Assistant Dean for International Affairs, University of Michigan Law School, discusses a pivotal issue that represents an increasingly significant development in the practice of law in the United States. Kaiser-Jarvis shines a bright light on the skills, knowledge and abilities… Continue Reading
Sunshine Week Open government is good government – March 13-19, 2016
“Sunshine Week is a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public’s right to know.” Continue Reading
