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New GAO Reports: Electronic Payments, Joint Forum on Tax Compliance, Medicaid Supplemental Payments, Nuclear Safety

Electronic Payments: Many Programs Electronically Disburse Federal Benefits, and More Outreach Could Increase Use, GAO-08-645, June 23, 2008 Highlights of the Joint Forum on Tax Compliance: Options for Improvement and Their Budgetary Potential, GAO-08-703SP, June 30, 2008 Medicaid: CMS Needs More Information on the Billions of Dollars Spent on Supplemental Payments, GAO-08-614, May 30, 2008 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

50th Anniversary of Landmark Ruling in NAACP v Alabama

EPIC: “Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in NAACP v. Alabama, one of the most important privacy cases of the last century. Professor Anita L. Allen, a leading privacy scholar, author of many books and articles, and a member of the EPIC Board of Directors, wrote an essay to celebrate the …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research, Privacy

New on LLRX.com: 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes, FOIA Facts, Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide

FOIA Facts: My Proposals for the FOIA: Following up on the passage earlier this year of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes make two proposals absent from the law, but which would help FOIA requesters. Published June 29, 2008 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes – Three techie gurus (Barbara …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, PC Security, Wireless Web

World Bank: World Trade Indicators 2008

“The World Trade Indicators (WTI), an interactive tool designed to benchmark a countrys trade policy and institutions and help policy makers, advisors, and analysts identify the main border and behind-the border constraints to trade integration. The WTI 2008 database is organized in five thematic categories, namely Trade Policy, External Environment, Institutional Environment, Trade Facilitation and …

Subjects: Government Documents

The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003January 2005

The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003January 2005. ON POINT II: Transition to the New Campaign. Dr. Donald P. Wright, Colonel Timothy R. Reese with the Contemporary Operations Study Team, Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Released June 29, 2008. [Note: this report is 720 pages, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Google: U.S. copyright renewal records available for download

Inside Google Blog Search: “U.S. Copyright Office records. Records from 1978 onward are online but not downloadable in bulk. The Copyright Office hasn’t digitized their earlier records, but Carnegie Mellon scanned them as part of their Universal Library Project, and the tireless folks at Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders painstakingly corrected the OCR. Thanks …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

United Nations Waste Treaty Postpones Long Awaited Toxic Waste Dumping Ban

News release, Basel Action Network: “The week-long 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention ended [June 27] with little progress in breaking the deadlock that is preventing a global toxic waste dumping ban from entering the force of international law. An effort promoted by Japan, Canada, New Zealand and India …

Subjects: Government Documents

Senlis Council Report: Winning over Angry Young Men is key to enduring stability in Iraq

News release: “The Senlis Council [The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas] has maintained an operational base in the southern provinces of Afghanistan since 2004. Initially aimed at providing a firsthand view of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

New GAO Reports: American Samoa, CDC Human Capital Planning, Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology, Secure Border Initiative

American Samoa: Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law, GAO-08-655, June 27, 2008 Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, GAO-08-679, June 27, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning Has Improved, but Strategic …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Commentary: U.S. Escalates Covert Actions Against Iran

The New Yorker: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran, by Seymour M. Hersh,July 7, 2008. “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

Pentagon Report Details Resilient Insurgency in Afghanistan

WSJ, sub. req’d: “In a remarkable shift, Afghanistan, where U.S. officials were once confident of victory, is now rivaling Iraq as the biggest cause of concern for American policymakers. According to a new Pentagon report, Taliban militants have regrouped after their initial fall from power and “coalesced into a resilient insurgency.” The report paints a …

Subjects: Government Documents

National Geographics: North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer

Aalok Mehta aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, National Geographic News June 20, 2008: “Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

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