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Energy Commission Proposes Plan to Cut Total U.S. Climate Emissions in First Year of Program

Press release: “The National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan group of top energy experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups, today released a series of new, sweeping recommendations to address the nation’s leading energy challenges. In its new report, Energy Policy Recommendations to the President and the 110th Congress (148 …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

HHS Report on Abstinence Education Programs

Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs, Final Report, April 2007 by: Christopher Trenholm, Barbara Devaney, Ken Fortson, Lisa Quay, Justin Wheeler, and Melissa Clark, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Contract No.: HHS 100-98-0010 MPR Reference No.: 8549-110 Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

USA.gov Launches Redesigned Site

Follow up to January 11, 2007 posting, FirstGov is Now USA.gov, today USA.gov relaunched with a new design, navigation and accessibility platform that significantly enhances user interface with the site. The site maintains a red, white a blue theme, with topical tabs running across the top of each page [For Citizens, For Business and Nonprofits, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Report Card for the First Quarter

House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Report Card for the First Quarter, April 19, 2007. Press release: “Today, Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Bob Filner (D-CA) announced an ambitious agenda focused on providing funds for the warrior, reaching out to American’s veterans and providing Congressional oversight with results. In the first 100 days of the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legislation

Phishing Activity Trends for February 2007

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), Phishing Activity Trends for February 2007 (8 pages, PDF) “The number of phishing reports received by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) came to 23,610 in February, a drop of over 6,000 from January’s previous record high of 29,930. ► For the first time ever recorded by the APWG, the United States …

Subjects: Cybercrime, ID Theft, Privacy

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime and the Nation's Households, 2005

Bureau of Justice Statistics: Crime and the Nation’s Households, 2005 – “Presents information on households or persons in households who experienced one or more violent or property victimizations in 2005. Measuring crime by counting the affected households gives an understanding of whether crime is concentrated in fewer households or spread among more households in the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

DOJ OIG Reports on Equitable Sharing Grants and Justice Program Grants

Use of Equitable Sharing Revenues by the Boulder County Drug Task Force Boulder, Colorado, Audit Report GR-60-07-003, April 2007 Use of Equitable Sharing Assets by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Audit Report GR-70-07-003, March 2007 Office of Justice Programs Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Funding Received by the Yuma County Attorney’s Office, Yuma, Arizona, Audit Report …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Open Source Article: Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

Published online before print April 16, 2007 – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0610172104, Open Access Article, Sustainability Science, Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and Geoffrey B. West. [full text, PDF] “Humanity has just crossed a major landmark in its …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing House Judiciary Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling

Follow-up to previous posting, White House Liaison Monica Goodling Again Refuses to Testify Before Congress on U.S. Attorney Firings, House Judiciary Committee, April 18, 2007 – Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing the Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling and Approval of Vacant Subcommittee Assignments “Meeting to consider: A resolution authorizing the Chairman to issue a …

Subjects: Congress, Legal Research