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Wikileaks’ October 22, 2010 document dump of classified military documents, The Iraq War Logs [see also the previous release, Wikileaks Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 – posted in Google fusion tables], will soon be followed by a third release, of classified State Department cables, according to the organization. Wikileaks’ twitter feed includes posts indicating the U.S. …
News release: “Bringing 9-1-1 into the 21st century is one of the FCCs key public safety priorities. FCC Chairman Genachowski announced that in December he will launch a proceeding, as recommended in the National Broadband Plan, to get public input on how to transition the current system to broadband enabled, next-generation 9-1-1. This action builds …
New Member Pictorial Directory: 112th Congress – Pocketsized compilation of color photographs of all of the men and women of the 112th Congress. See also New Members Guide 2010 By The Hill Staff
Follow up to FBI: Crime in the United States, 2009, these related reports and data: CQ 2010 City Crime Rate Rankings and Metro Crime Rate Rankings: Note – data sheets are available free from within the overall fee based book, City Crime Rankings 2010-2011. NYT: Violent Crime Rises in New York as Overall Crime Falls …
World Bank: “Accelerating innovation in emerging technologies is essential to help reduce the current and long-term impacts of climate change. However developing countries, which are most immediately threatened by these impacts, lag in their capacity to transfer, develop and deploy innovative climate technologies. Climate Innovation Centers: A New Way to Faster Climate Technologies in the …
The Fall/Winter 2010 Edition of The Business of Government “has as its background a period rife with significant challenges that go to the core of effective public management. Faced with seemingly intractable issues such as an ever growing federal deficit, economic uncertainty, unemployment, and aging infrastructure, it appears that the old adage doing more with …
“Eurostat regional yearbook 2010 gives a detailed picture of a large number of statistical fields in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as in candidate and EFTA countries. If you would like to take a closer look at social and economic trends in Europe’s regions, this publication is for you! The …
EU27 surplus down to 63 bn euro “In 2009, EU271 external trade in services2 slowed down compared with 2007 and 2008. EU27 exports of services to the rest of the word fell by 10%, from 524 billion euro in 2008 to 473 bn in 2009, and EU27 imports by 8%, from 446 bn to 409 …
St. Louis Fed – House Price Index for the United States, data via Federal Housing Finance Agency
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, two new working papers via the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: Stopping the Spill: The Five-Month Effort to Kill the Macondo Well – Staff Working Paper No. 6: “The containment story thus contains two parallel threads. First, …
Aging and Bankruptcy, Revisited, September 2010 issue of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal “The median age for bankruptcy petitioners increased from 37.7 years in 1994 to 41.4 years in 2002 to 44.9 years in 2007. Bankruptcy petitioners over the age of 45 constituted 27 percent of filers in 1994, 39 percent in 2002, and 50 …
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output From July 2010 Through September 2010, November 24, 2010 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) contains provisions that are intended to boost economic activity and employment in the United States. Section 1512(e) of the law requires the Congressional …
