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CRS Reports & Analysis Legal Sidebar – The Law and Leaks to the Press, 02/22/2017: “President Trump has expressed concern over leaks to the press from within the Executive Branch. Earlier administrations, particularly the Obama Administration, acted upon similar concerns to prosecute officials, employees, and contractors who leaked classified information or certain military information to …
Knowledge@Wharton: “It has never been a more exciting time to be a foodie — nor a more challenging time to be a restaurateur. Diners are enjoying the latest food trends, whether it is farm-to-table cuisines, craft beers, food halls or ordering from UberEATS. But for restaurateurs, the pressure to keep up can be daunting. Damian …
Berkman Klein Center – A data privacy playbook by Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, Andrew Linzer, and Susan Crawford. “Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive or identifiable information about residents. As cities embrace open data initiatives, more of this information is available to the …
Via InsideGov: U.S. Federal Budget Collection – includes estimates for Donald Trump Barack Obama Bill Clinton Calvin Coolidge Donald Trump Dwight Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt George H. W. Bush George W. Bush Harry S. Truman Herbert Hoover Jimmy Carter John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Theodore Roosevelt Warren G. Harding William H. …
Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda, February 24, 2017: “… Each Regulatory Reform Task Force shall evaluate existing regulations (as defined in section 4 of Executive Order 13771) and make recommendations to the agency head regarding their repeal, replacement, or modification, consistent with applicable law. At a minimum, each Regulatory Reform Task …
Above the Law – “Whatever your opinion of Donald Trump, there is no denying that he has promised an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days as president. While people all across the country have personal and political interests in keeping up with Trump’s pronouncements and policies, lawyers also have a professional interest in tracking …
Hoxby, Caroline M., The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education (February 2017). NBER Working Paper No. w23193. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2924283 “This study analyzes longitudinal data on nearly every person who engaged in postsecondary education that was wholly or substantially online between 1999 and 2014. It shows how much they and taxpayers paid for the education …
ALA [Note the links in this posting are to PDF versions of two books] – “Data are becoming the proverbial coin of the digital realm: a research commodity that might purchase reputation credit in a disciplinary culture of data sharing, or buy transparency when faced with funding agency mandates or publisher scrutiny. Unlike most monetary …
“In today’s digitally connected world, where accessing medical records, ordering groceries and paying taxes can all be done online, many internet users find it daunting to keep up with all the various passwords associated with their online accounts. One consequence is that a significant minority of users settle for less secure passwords they can more …
“Healthy city living is about more than eliminating food deserts and boosting access to healthcare. It also means the ability to safely ride your bike down the street, breathe clean air and not have to choose between paying the rent or buying dinner. A two-year analysis from Maryland-based de Beaumont Foundation’s CityHealth project sized up …
Harvard University – “The Religious Literacy Project is dedicated to enhancing and promoting the public understanding of religion. It is directed by Diane L. Moore, and enables Harvard Divinity School to continue its nearly four decades of leadership in religious studies and education in the United States. Read more.”
National Academies Press: “More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many …
