Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal 2005
EPA-350-R-06-002 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal 2005 (PDF, 19 pages), August 2006.
Free Downloads of Public Domain Books Now Available From Google Book Search
Google press release: “Starting today, readers can find new, and free, downloadable versions of some of the world’s greatest books on Google Book Search. Working with our library partners, we’re expanding access to books that are out of copyright and have become public domain material. Users can search and read these books on Google Book …
AP Gramling Awards Include News Research Center Director
The Associated Press names 9 winners of Gramling Award for excellence: “The honorees include a video journalist who established a new bureau in North Korea, a department head whose team takes the lead in using research in everything from urgent breaking news to long-term investigative work, and editors who expanded AP’s medical and science offerings …
European Approaches to Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism
CRS Report, European Approaches to Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism, July 24, 2006. “This report examines homeland security and counterterrorist measures in six selected European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. None of these European countries currently has a single ministry or department equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In …
U.S. Government Has "Between 50 and 75 Different Classifications Of Unclassified Information"
Officer.com: Piecing the Intelligence Puzzle – Local agencies play a key role in national criminal intelligence sharing.
EPIC Reports $50M Class Action Verdict Against Bank for Privacy Violation
EPIC: “A Florida bank was required to pay $50 million in a class-action settlement resulting from violations of federal privacy law. Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust purchased 656,600 names and addresses from the Florida DMV for use in direct marketing. The purchase violated the Drivers Privacy Protection Act, a 1993 law passed after it was …
E-Gov Initiatives Garner Mixed Results At 5 Year Mark
Govexec.com: E-Gov at Five Years, Part Two: Waiting for Success, by Daniel Pulliam. “Several of the technology projects are outright success stories, genuinely improving federal services online and easing their delivery…But others are stagnating under agency resistance, legal challenges and congressional concern.”
Rutgers-Camden Law School Library Offers NJ Supreme Court's Attorney Disciplinary Review Board Decisions
Follow-up to my June 13, 2006 posting, New Searchable Database of Congressional and NJ Legislative Documents, this August 29, 2006 announcement from Rutgers: “The Law Library at the Rutgers-Camden law school now offers [free] the decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Review Board from December, 1998 onward. These decisions are online here.”
Health Care in New Orleans Before and After Hurricane Katrina
“On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrinas landfall, a paper authored by Kaiser Family Foundation staff, released as a web exclusive by the journal Health Affairs, examines the impact of the storm on New Orleans, the current state of health care in the city, and lessons learned about the city’s health care delivery system. Health …
Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Not Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use
ONDCP Media Campaign: Contractor’s National Evaluation Did Not Find that the Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Was Effective in Reducing Youth Drug Use, Full text GAO-06-818, and Highlights, August 25, 2006. “Between 1998 and 2004, Congress appropriated over $1.2 billion to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. …
FDA Allowed "Emergency Research" on Patients Incapable of Informed Consent
Press release: “FDA Takes Close Look at Experience Gained from Regulations Allowing Emergency Research With An Exception from Informed Consent Requirements.” “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a close look at the implementation of its 1996 regulation, 21 CFR 50.24, which allows clinical emergency research when informed consent cannot be obtained. This federal …
Census Report on Income Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States 2005
Press release: Income Stable, Poverty Rate Increases, Percentage of Americans Without Health Insurance Unchanged: “Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 at $44,389, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the nation’s official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004. The …