News release: “Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today that, in response to requests from numerous Chairmen and Ranking Members of Congressional oversight committees, various organizations, and members of the public, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will initiate a review of allegations regarding certain actions by the Department of Justice… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
GPO Releases New Edition of Popular Style Manual
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) releases the 31st edition of the GPO Style Manual. This is the first revision since 2008 and the first to be issued under GPO’s new name. Since 1894, the GPO Style Manual has served as a guide to the style and form of Federal Government printing and publishing. The Manual… Continue Reading
GPO Begins Digital Release Of Historical Federal Register, 1990-1994 Available Today
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) start the digital release of historic issues of the Federal Register with issues from 1990-1994. The complete collection of 1990s Federal Registers are now available digitally on GPO’s govinfo. This project will digitize a total of 14,587 individual issues,… Continue Reading
MSPB – Preventing Nepotism in the Federal Civil Service
Preventing Nepotism in the Federal Civil Service – A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States by the Merit Systems Protection Board June 2016. “…As explained in this report, new political appointees whose backgrounds do not include prior public service may be unfamiliar with the rules for the civil service, including… Continue Reading
NPS – Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy
Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Cultural Resources, Partnerships, and Science Climate Change Response Program, December 2016. “The purpose of this Strategy is to set out the broad scope of cultural resources in relation to climate change and identify major directions of action in cultural resources and climate… Continue Reading
Valuing Climate Changes: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide
“The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages – that is, the monetized value of the net impacts, both negative and positive – from the global climate change that results from a small (1-metric ton) increase in carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. Under Executive Orders… Continue Reading
Paper – The Foreign Emoluments Clause: Article I, Section 9, Clause
Tillman, Seth Barrett and Teachout, Zephyr, The Foreign Emoluments Clause: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 (August 8, 2016). Zephyr Teachout & Seth Barrett Tillman, The Foreign Emoluments Clause: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, in The Interactive Constitution (National Constitution Center 2016); Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2820288. Available for download at… Continue Reading
Brookings Paper – The Emoluments Clause: Its Text, Meaning, and Application to Donald J. Trump
Brookings Paper – The Emoluments Clause: Its Text, Meaning, and Application to Donald J. Trump, December 16, 2016. Norman L. Eisen, Richard Painter and Laurence H. Tribe. Introduction – “Foreign interference in the American political system was among the gravest dangers feared by the Founders of our nation and the Framers of our Constitution. The… Continue Reading
Report – changing face of business and the part artificial intelligence has to play
Accenture via World Economic Fortune: “Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI, along with doomsday headlines and scary movies. But the reality is that it will positively and materially change how we engage… Continue Reading
Office of Government Ethics – status of presidential transition
“The plan the [president-elect] has announced doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every president in the last four decades have met.We can’t risk the perception that government leaders would use their official positions for professional profit. Stepping back from running his business is meaningless from a conflict… Continue Reading
Call centers mining social media to respond to customers
Jeff John Roberts – “Last time you dialed a corporate call center, did the agent seem nicer than usual? That could be because companies now pull data from sites like Facebook and LinkedIn in order to select an operator who is most likely to charm you. – According to the Wall Street Journal, phone giant Sprint… Continue Reading
An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions
An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions, Garrett Dash Nelson, Alasdair Rae. PLOS. Published: November 30, 2016 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166083 “The emergence in the United States of large-scale “megaregions” centered on major metropolitan areas is a phenomenon often taken for granted in both scholarly studies and popular accounts of contemporary economic geography.… Continue Reading
