Monthly archives: May, 2010

International Atomic Energy Agency Report on Status of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran Report by the Director General, 31 May 2010 “Based on an overall analysis undertaken by the Agency of all the information available to it, the Agency remains …

Subjects: Government Documents

TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery

TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery – “In collaboration with the Financial Times (FT), Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda of Brookings have developed a set of composite indexes which track the global economic recovery. The Financial Times has produced the Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery (TIGER) interactive map.” Economic Recovery in …

Subjects: Government Documents

Pew Report: Recession Brings Another Round of Higher Taxes and New Fees to Big Cities

News release: “The latest review of municipal budgets in 13 major cities by The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative finds that almost all of the cities are dealing with another year of budget shortfalls, albeit slightly smaller than last year, and four of them intend to raise major taxes or impose broad new fees …

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Defense Infrastructure, VA Health Care, Warfighter Support, Environmental Satellites

Defense Infrastructure: Impact of Purchasing from Local Distributors All Alcoholic Beverages for Resale on Military Installations on Guam, GAO-10-563R, May 28, 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs: Agency Has Exceeded Contracting Goals for Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, but It Faces Challenges with Its Verification Program, GAO-10-458, May 28, 2010 VA Health Care: Reporting of Spending and Workload …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

BJS: National Corrections Reporting Program

Bureau of Justice Statistics: National Corrections Reporting Program by Thomas P. Bonczar, May 25, 2010 “Updates the electronic series of selected tables on most serious offense, sentence length, and time served of state prison admissions and releases and parole entries and discharges. The National Corrections Reporting Program collects demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, credited …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

BJS: Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2006

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2006, by Thomas H Cohen, Tracey Kyckelhahn, May 26, 2010, NCJ 228944 “Presents data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the nation’s 75 most populous counties during May 2006. To provide a complete overview of the processing of felony defendants from …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Report: Canada's Oil Sands Face Significant Financial and Environmental Risks as Great as Those in BP Spill

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via RiskMetrics Group and Ceres, this new report – Canada’s Oil Sands: Shrinking Window of Opportunity “While public attention is focused on widespread environmental and financial damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a new Ceres report released today shows that the environmental and …

Subjects: Government Documents

Louisiana Lawmakers Add Time to Crimes Committed Using Internet Street Maps

ReadWriteWeb: “The state legislature in the U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online map. Senate Bill 151 adds at least one year to the sentence of any criminal found guilty of using an “Internet, virtual, street-level map” like Google Maps with Street View to …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

CBO: Strategies for Maintaining the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ Inventories of Fighter Aircraft

CBO Report – Strategies for Maintaining the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ Inventories of Fighter Aircraft, May 2010 “The United States Navy and Marine Corps operate a fleet of tactical fighter aircraft that provide air-to-air and air-to-ground combat capabilities. Although current procurement plans call for the purchase of about 700 new fighter aircraft over the next …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

CBO: Health Costs and the Federal Budget

Health Costs and the Federal Budget, May 2010. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the Institute of Medicine. “Rising health costs will put tremendous pressure on the federal budget during the next few decades and beyond. In CBO’s judgment, the health legislation enacted earlier this year does not substantially diminish that pressure.”

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

BEA: 2009 Decline Widespread Across Industries

2009 Decline Widespread Across Industries: “Advance GDP by Industry Statistics for 2009 and Revised Statistics for 1998-2008 – Downturns in durable-goods manufacturing and finance and insurance and a continued contraction in construction were the leading contributors to the downturn in U.S. economic growth in 2009, according to preliminary statistics on the breakout of real gross …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents