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News release: “Citing a need to improve certainty and order in oil and gas leasing on U.S. public lands, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced several reforms that the Bureau of Land Management will undertake to improve protections for land, water, and wildlife and reduce potential conflicts that can lead to costly and …
WSJ: “Violent crime in Los Angeles hit its lowest level in more than half a century last year, one of a growing number of U.S. cities reporting its streets were remarkably safe in 2009. Washington, D.C., finished the year with 143 killings, the lowest tally in the nation’s capital since 1966. San Francisco reported 45 …
News release: “National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson today released her National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2009 Annual Report to Congress, warning that increased demands on the IRS have eroded the agencys ability to meet taxpayer service needs and expressing concern that IRS collection practices are harming financially struggling taxpayers without producing significant revenue gains. In the …
News release: “Several changes have been made to THOMAS for the second session of the 111th Congress. These changes include: Bookmarking and Sharing Widget; Top Five Bills; New RSS feed: Bills Presented to the President; Contacting Members of Congress; Tip of the Week; Bill Text PDFs.”
“The UK Border Agency is responsible for delivering the e-Borders programme, and we are doing so with the support of the police and HM Revenue & Customs. We are working closely with the travel industries, whose support is crucial to the programme’s success. Information will be gathered on all travellers, passengers and crew entering or …
“Some Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for Extra Help to pay for the costsmonthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-paymentsrelated to a Medicare prescription drug plan. The Extra Help is estimated to be worth an average of $3,900 per year. To qualify for the Extra Help, a person must be on Medicare, have limited income and …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, as required by The Do-Not-Call Registry Fee Extension Act of 2007, has approved two reports to Congress: a biennial report focusing on the use of the Do Not Call Registry by both consumers and businesses, as well as the impact that new technologies have had on the Registry, and …
Health Spending Growth At A Historic Low In 2008: “In 2008, U.S. health care spending growth slowed to 4.4 percentthe slowest rate of growth over the past forty-eight years. The deceleration was broadly based for nearly all payers and health care goods and services, as growth in both price and nonprice factors slowed amid the …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, see Presidential Report on Radiation Protection Advice: Screening of Humans for Security Purposes Using Ionizing Radiation Scanning Systems – A Report Prepared by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements: “This Presidential Report from the National Council on Radiation …
Issuance of Guidance and Summary of Actions Taken in Response to the Report of the Department of Justice Criminal Discovery and Case Management Working Group, David W. Ogden, Deputy Attorney General, January 4, 2010 “By making deliberate choices regarding discovery issues, prosecutors are most likely to comply with discovery obligations imposed by law and Department …
The Feasibility of Systemic Risk Measurement: Written Testimony for the House Financial Services Committee Hearing on Systemic Risk Regulation, Working Paper, October 2009, Andrew W. Lo [Harris & Harris Group Professor, Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering] Related postings on financial system
January 2010 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for October 2009 – Jan 4, 2010: “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level.”
