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State of Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Louisiana Citizen Awareness and Disaster Evacuation Guides Southeast – New Orleans, Slidell Southwest – Lake Charles, Lafayette
FAA Airspace Redesign: An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Project, GAO-08-786, July 31, 2008 Grants Management: Attention Needed to Address Undisbursed Balances in Expired Grant Accounts, GAO-08-432, August 29, 2008 Military Personnel: DOD’s and the Coast Guard’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges, GAO-08-924, August 29, 2008
Preliminary Annual Report on U.S. Holding of Foreign Securities, August 29, 2008. “Preliminary data from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2007 are released today and posted on the U.S. Treasury web site at here (209 pages, PDF). Final survey results, which will include additional detail as well as …
Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG): Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (ISP-I-08-34) Aug 2008 [208 pages, Sensitive but Unclassified] “The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) successfully completed 54 new embassy compounds (NEC) and annex office buildings under the Construction Security Program, placing …
News release: “Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released statements in reaction to troubling new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on household incomes, health care coverage, and poverty. While wages have risen slightly from 2006 to 2007 and fewer families are without …
News release: “Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Departments Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, which govern how all federal prosecutors investigate, charge, and prosecute corporate crimes. The new guidelines address issues that have been of great interest to prosecutors …
Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance, Constance Ledoux Book, Janna Quitney Anderson, Michele Hammerbacher, Anne Nicholson, Dannika Lewis, Eryn Gradwell, August 13, 2008.
News release: “UNODC’s Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008 shows a 19% decrease in opium cultivation to 157,000 hectares, compared to the record harvest of 193,000 in 2007. Owing to a higher yield of 48.8 kg/ha (up from 42.5 kg in 2007), opium production has dropped less dramatically, down 6% from 8,200 to 7,700. According to the …
U.S. Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District – Hurricane Protection System Improvements: “This page contains a computer animated overview and specific information about improvements that USACE is making to the Southern Louisiana Hurricane Protection System (HPS).” Related postings on Katrina
U.S. Courts: “In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2008, there were 967,831 bankruptcy cases filed, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That is a 28.9 percent increase compared to filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2007, when cases totaled 751,056. Historic data on bankruptcy filings …
GPO Access: “To browse the current catalog of Congressional Committee Prints – available from 110th Congress, 1st Session (2007-2008) forward, click here. Links are included with each Congressional Committee print listed in the catalog, which retrieve the text of the corresponding document as an ASCII text or PDF file.”
Great .gov Web sites, by Joab Jackson: “These 10 sites show agencies putting the power of the Web to work. Government agencies are finally catching on to the World Wide Web. Ten years ago, most government executives saw the Web as a sort of electronic brochure. Now they have come to realize that the Web …
