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Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a blog to provide information and a forum for feedback about its public hearings on “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade,” to be held November 6-8, 2006, in Washington, DC. The public hearings will examine how evolving technology will shape and change the habits, opportunities and challenges …
National Journal: A proliferation of political spoof sites – Politicos get creative and aggressive with opposition research on the Web
Treasury Economic Update, released October 6, 2006 House Budget Committee – Democrats – Republican Budget Deficits: A Continuing Problem with Long-Term Consequences, October 11, 2006 House Budget Committee – Republicans – Surging Revenues Continue to Drive Down Deficit, October 11, 2006
Congressional Directory 109th Congress – Latest Revision: “Presents short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers.” Search the Current Directory Only — 109th Congress (2005-06) — September 2006 Online …
“Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers.” Take a tour of Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Press release: “The Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit is investigating data recovered from a computer in the United States that was found to contain personal information from hacked computers located in the United Kingdom. We believe the data has been stolen by the use of a computer virus and it is believed more than 2,300 …
Press release: “One in four veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are filing disability claims, according to records released by the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) under the Freedom of Information Act after nine months of denying their existence and posted today on the National Security Archive Web site.” Document 1: VBA report, …
Guidelines for State Trial Courts Regarding Discovery of Electronically-Stored Information, Conference of Chief Justices, Approved August 2006.
From Primary Research Group (via Lawsites): “This study is based on a survey of 40 law firms with a mean size of 211 lawyers; data is broken out by size of law firm (by number of total lawyers) and by number of practice groups…In each firm a major marketing official answered questions regarding editorial staff, …
“FedSpending.org, created by OMB Watch, is a free, searchable database of federal government spending. To begin searching, select either the Grants or Contracts tab at the top left side of this page. You can easily switch back and forth as you search….FedSpending.org relies on the federal government’s data for this website. The data is largely …
Guide to Using State Court Caseload Statistics: “This Guide is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), the Court Statistics Project (CSP) of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), trial court administrators, state and trial court statisticians, and other court experts from around the country.” [see also …
“Effective October 6, 2006 financial disclosure statements filed across the country in 2006 in most states will be available online at the Center for Public Integrity’s Web site…select a state at www.publicintegrity.org/iys and, under the “Documents & Databases” section, click “Legislator Personal Financial Disclosures.” The Center has collected these documents since 2000 more than …
