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News today about the DOJ’s 2003 memo concerning the Congressional redistricting plan enacted by the Texas Legislature (Texas House Bill 3). The text of the document (73 pages, PDF), has been published by the Lone Star Project. From the document: “The State of Texas has not met its burden in showing that the proposed congressional …
Following up on an archive of postings on the Cheney Energy Task Force investigation, the embers of this controversy are still glowing: Press release, November 23, 2005: “United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) today released a report(3 pages, PDF) rebutting the legal argument put forward by Senate Republicans to protect the Big Oil CEOs …
Press release, UK Cabinet Office, November 24, 2005: “The UK Cabinet Office…published a comprehensive report on accessibility of government online services across the European Union (EU). Highlighted examples of good practice are, Spain Social Security Administration, UK Department of Health and European Central Bank. These websites show how good design features such as clear layout, …
Winners, Nominees, Honourable Mentions 2005 (9 pages, PDF) “KSI ZUS, EID, Kadaster-on-line and ROS are the successful four, representing the most outstanding projects benefiting European citizens and businesses.”
America’s Most Literate Cities, 2005: Seattle, WA ranked as the number one city for Internet literacy, defined in terms of “Internet resources available to the population.” These resources include library Internet connections, commercial and public WiFi access, Internet book orders, and reading newspapers on the Internet.
According to Roll Call (subscription req’d): “House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), are calling for a bipartisan Congressional investigation into former Rep. Duke Cunningham’s (R-Calif.) handling of classified information while serving on the Appropriations and Intelligence committees.” Mr. Cunningham is still under investigation following his guilty plea for having accepted in excess …
“Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 – October 17th. This collection, containing more than 25 million searchable documents, will be preserved by Internet Archive with access to …
Press release, November 29, 2005: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose for public comment rules that would allow companies and other persons to use the Internet to satisfy proxy material delivery requirements…The company would post its proxy materials on an Internet Web site (other than EDGAR) and would send a ‘Notice of …
Windows OneCare Team Blog: “WOC is devoted to helping users’ get their machines in a secure and healthy state.” Windows OneCare Live beta
Following up with a link to resources referenced in my posting yesterday, Additional Gov Docs. Released From Alito’s DOJ Tenure, see today’s press release: “The National Archives at College Park will release 31 documents totaling 336 pages from Record Group 60, Records of the Department of Justice, Files of Charles Cooper and Files of the …
November 30, 2005: President Outlines Strategy for Victory in Iraq, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Fact Sheet: Training Iraqi Security Forces In Focus: National Strategy for Victory in Iraq Related documents: LA Times (reg. req’d), U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press Rep. Waxman Calls for an Investigation of U.S. Military …
Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation, by Marcus P. Zillman, updated December 1, 2005.