Monthly archives: May, 2010

New Federal Strategy for Chesapeake Launches Major Initiatives and Holds Government Accountable for Progress

News release: “The new federal strategy for the Chesapeake region released…focuses on protecting and restoring the environment in communities throughout the 64,000-square-mile watershed and in its thousands of streams, creeks and rivers. The strategy includes using rigorous regulations to restore clean water, implementing new conservation practices on 4 million acres of farms, conserving 2 million …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Wharton School: Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

News release: “To come up with the next iPad, Amazon or Facebook, the last thing potential innovators need is a group brainstorm session. What the pacesetters of the future really require, according to new Wharton research, is some time alone. In a paper titled, Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, Wharton operations …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

American Library Association releases 2009 Legislative Scorecards

“The American Library Association (ALA) Washington Office has released the associations 2009 Legislative Scorecards for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. The Legislative Scorecards outline votes and support of legislation that is important to and has an impact on the library community. The ALA provides the scorecard as a tool to ALA …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation, Libraries

Joint Economic Committee Report: Government Investment in Scientific Research Critical

“A new report released [May 12, 2010] by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) highlights the role of government investment in research and development (R&D), especially in the area of basic research. The report, entitled The Pivotal Role of Government Investment in Basic Research, concludes that the United States needs to identify and support …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Study: Cordless telephone use: implications for mobile phone research

Cordless telephone use: implications for mobile phone research. Redmayne M, Inyang I, Dimitriadis C, Benke G, Abramson MJ. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. “Cordless and mobile (cellular) telephone use has increased substantially in recent years causing concerns about possible health …

Subjects: Government Documents

Federal Judiciary Launches Enhanced Website

News release: “The Federal Judiciarys website, www.uscourts.gov, today unveils a host of enhancements. The site has been redesigned to make it more attractive, accessible, and useful to its diverse audience of users. The improvements further the websites mission of increasing public interest, awareness, and understanding of the federal court system and its functions, and to …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Joint Economic Committee Report: Working Mothers in the Great Recession

Understanding the Economy – Working Mothers in the Great Recession, Prepared by Joint Economic Committee Majority Staff, Mothers Day 201, An Update on Working Moms “The Great Recession has taken a huge toll on working families. The vast majority of jobs lost were lost by men, but a substantial number of jobs were lost by …

Subjects: Government Documents

Is the Oil Spill Ecological Disaster in the Making?

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the New York Times: “Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the …

Subjects: Government Documents

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

“The key message of the contribution of the Special Rapporteur is the following: the right to food is not merely a slogan, and it is not only of symbolic value; it is a tool, with clear operational impacts, that can improve the impacts of interventions in a variety of domains, and make them more sustainable …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents

CleanTech 2010 – International expo to be held in Tel Aviv

“The 14th CleanTech 2010 Expo, scheduled to take place in Israel from 29-30 June 2010 at the Fairs & Conventions Center in Tel-Aviv, aims to raise the discussion of energy, water and recycling issues to the public agenda, alongside presenting the newest developments in the area in Israel and abroad. Delegations from across the globe, …

Subjects: Government Documents

Bankruptcy Filings Continued to Rise

News release: “Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, rose 27 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. March 2010 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,531,997, compared to the 1,202,395 bankruptcy cases filed in …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents

Financial Stability Oversight Board Issues Report on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

News release: “The Financial Stability Oversight Board (Oversight Board on May 13, 2010) issued its latest quarterly report to Congress on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), covering the period from January 1 to March 31. The report highlights the activities of the Oversight Board during the first quarter. It also presents the Oversight Board’s …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

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