Day archives: September 3rd, 2010

AP Asserts : "Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is"

Follow up to President Obama’s Address on Iraq via Poynter Online – AP: ‘Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is’, Memo from the AP’s standards editor, Tom Kent, Thursday, September 02, 2010 ” Many AP staffers are producing content that refers to the situation in Iraq. …

Subjects: Government Documents

Google says it is simplifying and updating privacy policies

Official Google Blog: “Long, complicated and lawyerly — that’s what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they’re legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. To be clear, we aren’t changing any of our privacy …

Subjects: Privacy

Census Bureau Reports 16 Percent Increase in Federal Domestic Spending in 2009

News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that obligations for federal domestic spending increased 16.0 percent in fiscal year 2009 to $3.2 trillion. The 2009 spending total is equivalent to $10,548 per person living in the United States. The annual percentage change (16.0 percent) is the largest since the Census Bureau began compiling these …

Subjects: Government Documents

Census Bureau Reports State and Local Government Employment Remains at 16.6 Million

News release: “The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, statistically unchanged from 2008, according to government employment data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Part-time employees numbered 4.7 million, not statistically different from 2008. Local governments accounted for 12.2 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents