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Pew Center on Global Climate Change – What’s Being Done in the States – “Across the country, states and regions are adopting policies to address climate change. These actions include increasing renewable energy generation, selling agricultural carbon sequestration credits, and encouraging energy efficiency. Such policies reduce vulnerability to energy price spikes, promote state economic development, …
Washington Technology: The Billion-Dollar Club – To be a member, focus on defense, homeland security, health IT, outsourcing as hot opportunities.” See also, Small companies build market muscle – The Top 100 isnt exclusively the land of giants. Many small and midsized businesses elbow their way onto the list each year.
“OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what’s really going on in Congress. Now, everyone can be an insider. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission …
Quarterly Banking Profile – “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.” See also the FDIC Annual Report, February 20, 2007 – The 2006 review of policy, activity, and financial status.
February 12, 2007 press release: “The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has issued a new document that provides guidance and direction to develop an overall baseline for common geospatial standards used to share, manipulate, and exploit digital geospatial data. (NGA0701)” Geospatial Intelligence Standards: Enabling a Common Vision , November 2006.
Follow up to postings on FDA’s review of cloned animal safety issues, via Chews Wise, Top U.S. Dairy Bans Milk From Clones: “…The top U.S. dairy company, Dean Foods, has adopted a policy statement banning milk from cloned cows…” [Charles Margulis, Center for Food Safety]
Follow-up to my February 22, 2007 posting New Report Shows No Precedent for Mass U.S. Attorney Firings, see this related Washington Post article, February 24, 2007, Justice Department Fires 8th U.S. Attorney: “An eighth U.S. attorney announced her resignation yesterday, the latest in a wave of forced departures of federal prosecutors who have clashed with …
“OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. We gather GPS tracks and draw maps over them, in an editable wiki style database. And recently we added aerial imagery to our toolbox, thanks to Yahoo!, so dense urban areas and remote locations can be mapped just by tracing streets in the …
New LC Country Profile of Colombia, February 23, 2007.
Follow up to previous postings on calls for judicial pay raises, “the top lawyers at 60 major U.S. corporations have urged congressional leaders to provide a “substantial increase to the salaries of federal judges.” Letter text, February 15, 2007.
Interim Review of Contract Costs, Clearbrook, LLC, FEMA Disaster No. DR-1603-LA, Report No. DD-07-06 (PDF, 6 pages), February 2007.
Follow up to February 21, 2007 posting, DHS Announces Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, today Rep. Henry Waxman, Chair of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to TSA requesting “explain why a TSA website that collected Social Security numbers and personal information from the public operated for several days without basic security measures.”
