Census and HUD Joint Release on New Residential Home Sales in December 2007

Press release: “Sales of new one-family houses in December 2007 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 604,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is 4.7 percent (±12.1%) below the revised November rate of 634,000 and is 40.7 percent (±7.8%) …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

2008 State of the Union Policy Initiatives

Keeping America Safe By Fostering The Freedom Agenda – U.S. Is Promoting Liberty As A Hopeful Alternative To Violent Extremism, January 28, 2008 Increasing Our Energy Security And Confronting Climate Change – The Administration Is Taking Steps To Reduce U.S. Dependence On Oil, And To Advance U.S. Leadership In Developing A Global Response To Climate …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

District Court Bars the Sale of Consumers’ Telephone Records to Third Parties

Press release: “A federal judge has barred the illegal operation of an information broker who advertised and sold confidential consumer telephone records to third parties without the consumers’ knowledge or consent. In entering summary judgment for the Federal Trade Commission, Judge William F. Downes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming also …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

FOIA Request Yields VA Data on American Casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

The Herald (United Kingdom): “The US has suffered more than 72,000 battlefield casualties since the start of the war on terror in 2001, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The query by the campaigning Veterans for Common Sense organisation shows that 4,372 American soldiers have died and another 67,671 have been wounded in action, …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents

Ombudsman: NGOs can help EU institutions do their job better

Press release: “The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has underlined the importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in pointing out possible instances of maladministration in the EU institutions. Over the past ten years, the Ombudsman’s office has received almost 1,000 complaints from NGOs and associations. They included alleged maladministration concerning environmental projects, late payment for EU …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

Wilderness Alliance Sues Interior Over Drilling Leases

Case No. 2:08cv00064, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, vs. Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States District Court, District of Utah, Central Division, January 23, 2008. “This suit challenges the decisions by the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of the Interior, and Secretary of the Department of …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Rand Report: Managing Diversity in Corporate America

Managing Diversity in Corporate America, An Exploratory Analysis – By: Jefferson P. Marquis, Nelson Lim, Lynn M. Scott, Margaret C. Harrell, Jennifer Kavanagh, January 23, 2008. “Managing diversity has become a primary concern of top U.S. corporations. In this paper, the authors develop a fact-based approach to modeling diversity management. They use the model to …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Guide to Lesser Known Technology Web Sites

Top 60 Little-Known Technology Web Sites, By Charles Babcock, Thomas Claburn, John Foley, W. David Gardner, Antone Gonsalves, Nicholas J. Hoover, K.C. Jones, Elena Malykhina, Richard Martin, Paul McDougall, Marianne McGee, Chris Murphy, Cora Nucci, Art Wittman, and Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, January 26, 2008 “Our guide to great blogs and Web sites worth adding to …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Search Engines, Wireless Web