State and Local Governments’ Fiscal Outlook – April 2013 Update, GAO-13-546SP, Apr 29, 2013: “The state and local government sector continues to face near-term and long-term fiscal challenges which add to the nation’s overall fiscal challenges. The state and local sector faces a gap between revenue and spending and long-term fiscal challenges that grow over… Continue Reading
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East Carolina LibGuide – Annoucing the Cold War & Internal Security Collection
David Durant, East Carolina University: “J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, is pleased to announce the creation of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection. The CWIS Collection is a print archive containing over 1,000 congressional hearings, reports and committee prints, published between 1934-1976, dealing with congressional investigations of organizations deemed “subversive” or “un-American”.… Continue Reading
BBC News: Bee Deaths – EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
BBC News: “An EU vote last month was inconclusive, so the Commission proposal went to an appeals committee on Monday – and again the countries were split on the issue. Some restrictions are already in place for neonicotinoids in France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The three neonicotinoids are clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam. A report published… Continue Reading
TRAC: ICE's FOIA Requests Piling Up
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “At Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) there has been a rapid rise in the backlog of FOIA requests received that have been waiting unanswered for long periods of time. According to its annual FOIA report, ICE had only 50 pending requests at the end of FY 2011; this number jumped to… Continue Reading
McKinsey – Whither the US equity markets?
The underlying drivers of performance suggest that over the long term, a dramatic decline in equity returns is unlikely. April 2013 | byBing Cao, Bin Jiang, and Tim Koller “US equity markets stretched once again into record territory in March, setting new highs on both the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes. Thats good news… Continue Reading
Article – The Dangers of Surveillance
The Dangers of Surveillance, Neil M. Richards, Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law. March 25, 2013, Harvard Law Review, 2013 [Via SSRN] “From the Fourth Amendment to George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, our culture is full of warnings about state scrutiny of our lives. These warnings are commonplace, but they are rarely very… Continue Reading
PLUS Registry – Find and contact artists, rights-holders, licensors, licensees and archives
“The PLUS Registry is an online resource developed and operated cooperatively by a global Coalition of all communities engaged in creating, using, distributing and preserving images. Search the Registry to find rights and descriptive information (metadata) for any image, and to find current contact information for related creators, rights holders and institutions. Register for a… Continue Reading
Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs
CRS – Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs, Dawn Nuschler, Coordinator, Specialist in Income Security, April 24, 2013 “In recent years, various proposals have been discussed in the context of ways to reduce federal budget deficits. One of the proposals, for example, is the use of a different measure of consumer price change to index… Continue Reading
New Bipartisan Legislation Targets "Too Big to Fail"
News release: “U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) announced a new plan that would prevent any one financial institution from becoming so large and over leveraged that it could put our economy on the brink of collapse or trigger the need for a federal bailout…Despite receiving assistance from taxpayers in 2008, today,… Continue Reading
CBO – Presentation on Innovation Policy
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf: “I spoke this afternoon at a conference on “Innovation Policy and the Economy organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research. My presentation explored a wide array of possible changes in federal policy that might bolster innovation, including more spending on research and development, increased support for education, lower taxes on… Continue Reading
A Tour of the Federal Budget and Possible Changes in Budget Policy
CBO: A Tour of the Federal Budget and Possible Changes in Budget Policy, Presentation to Economics 10 at Harvard University, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, April 26, 2013 Continue Reading
Cycling For Libraries – Travel Funding
Cycling For Libraries – Travel Funding – Help three librarians take part in Cycling For Libraries from Amsterdam to Brussels this June! Continue Reading
