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Today the members of the Commission on Federal Election Reform released the Final Commission Report: Building Confidence in U.S. Elections (113 pages, PDF). Individual sections of the report may be downloaded using this table of contents. Related links: Help America Vote Act beSpacific links on e-voting
From AP today, this article highlights the battlelines that have been drawn, and are hardening, between publishers and Google concerning the expansive plan to digitize significant library collections from throughout the world, thus allowing users to search content on the web.
Katrina’s Wake: Restoring Financial Services (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: The Response by the Internal Revenue Service (6 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: Insurance Losses and National Capacities for Financing Disaster Risk (23 pages, PDF) Unemployment and Employment Programs Available to Workers from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Affected by Hurricane Katrina (16 pages, PDF) Hurricane Katrina: …
“The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)…announce[s] the launch of the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII). Like other LIIs, CommonLII is a free access and non-profit facility. CommonLII already allows browsing and searching of 464 databases from 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories. Most of these databases are located on existing LIIs in Commonwealth …
How to Combat Spyware in Corporate Environments – “A vendor contribution from Panda Soft on Spyware…Spyware downloaded to companies can steal confidential information, reduce the performance of the IT infrastructure, due to the resources used by non work-related activity and loss of employee productivity, who have to deal with changes to system settings and unwanted …
Joshua Ruihley of Open CRS contacted me with this link for researchers to facilitate direct access to 35 Katrina related CRS reports that the site makes available for free. The Open CRS Network updates their database regularly, so make this a hot link for your research. See also the State Department’s new website on Hurricane …
AP reports on a bipartisan call from the House Intelligence Committee for the public release of the classified CIA IG report on the agency’s activities related to 9/11.
This past week Google launched a search engine specific to locating resources related to hurricane Katrina, as well as a tool, albeit one with its share of limitations due to the challeges of the task, to reunited those separated by the disaster. About Google’s Hurricane Katrina Resources: “We’ve launched two new search features designed specifically …
“On Monday, Sept. 19, NYTimes.com will launch a new subscription service, TimesSelect…[subscribers] will have exclusive online access to many of our most influential columnists in Op-Ed, Business, New York/Region and Sports… As part of TimesSelect, The Times is also opening up its vast archive of articles reaching back 25 years and eventually back to the …
Senate substitute to HR 3768: Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act of 2005 (43 pages, PDF) Summary of Amendment to S. 1696, Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act of 2005 Amendment to S. 1696, Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act of 2005 (56 pages, PDF)
The American Public Health Association (APHA) has made available for free download in PDF, Linda Landesman’s Public Health Management of Disasters, 2nd Edition, 13 chapters, along with appendices A through Z. [m.r.] Related link: From the Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Hurricane Katrina Response – Legal Issues: “…the Center has developed several memoranda, …
News Release: FCC Takes Steps to Assist in Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief: “Chairman Kevin J. Martin of the Federal Communications Commission today announced steps to provide immediate relief to consumers and businesses harmed by Hurricane Katrina and to enhance the FCC’s planning and response efforts when disaster does strike. The Chairman will propose to provide …