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News release: “Americans are divided on whether cell phones should be allowed during flights, with people age 65 and older more likely to oppose their use than those between 18 and 34, according to a new Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) special report using survey data on opinions about the transportation system. BTS, a part …
2008 Economic Downturn and Federal Inaction Impact on Crime – Mayors and Police Chiefs 124 Cities Report to The Nation, August 6, 2008. “More than four in 10 of the survey cities (42 percent) report that they are seeing increased crime as a result of current economic conditions. Nearly three in 10 cities (29 percent) …
Medicare and Medicaid: CMS and State Efforts to Interact with the Indian Health Service and Indian Tribes, GAO-08-724, July 11, 2008 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Navy Programs’ Compliance with DOD’s Federated Business Enterprise Architecture Needs to Be Adequately Demonstrated, GAO-08-972, August 07, 2008
News release: “Patients in the United States made an estimated 1.1 billion visits to physician offices and hospital outpatient and emergency departments in 2006, an average of four visits per person per year, according to new health care statistics released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data come from various components …
Public Integrity: “For more than seven months, the nations top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially alarming information as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates. Researchers found low birth weights, elevated rates …
Monthly Budget Review, August 2008. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for June and the Daily Treasury Statements for July. “The federal budget deficit was about $371 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $213 billion more than the shortfall recorded over the same period in 2007. Revenues were about …
AP – US: Ivins solely responsible for anthrax attacks Press release: “As the Department indicated last week and has been widely reported, substantial progress has been made in the Amerithrax investigation in recent years. As you know, this investigation into the worst act of bioterrorism in U.S. history has been one of the largest and …
D-2008-115 Status of Training Vehicles for U.S. Ground Forces Deploying in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, August 6, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000LH-0108.001) “Our overall audit objective was to determine whether U.S. ground forces supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were receiving the training necessary to meet operational requirements. Specifically for this project, we determined whether levels …
Department of Energy IG Audit Report – Management Controls over Changes to the Idaho Cleanup Project Contract Baseline, July 2008 “In Fiscal Year 2005, the Department of Energy (Department) awarded a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee coiltract to CH2M + WG Idaho, LLC (CWI) to lead environmental cleanup of its Idaho National Laboratory site. CWI’s contract requires it to …
Department of Energy IG Audit Report: Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (U) – an unclassified summary of the classified Audit Report on “Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Weapons Safety Program (DOE/IG-0799, July 31, 2008) “Nuclear weapons safety is of paramount importance to U.S. security. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requires …
Consumer Federation of America, Fuel Economy and Auto Sales: Automaker and the National Highway Trafffic Safety Administration Ignore Market Signals, August 2008, by Mark Cooper: “This analysis explores important and fundamental flaws in the underlying economic assumptions made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in proposing its 2011-2015 fuel economy standards for autos …
News release: “In response to Chairman Waxmans inquiry, EPA provided analyses EPA had conducted of reductions that would be necessary from the transportation sector to meet a range of global warming goals.” The Potential Energy and GHG Implications of Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles: A Scenario Analysis, 2008 – SAE Government/Industry Meeting, U.S. EPA, May 14, 2008 …
