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National Governors Association (NGA) Launches Governors Legacy Project: “NGA launched a user-friendly comprehensive database of all past and present U.S. governors. Called the “Governors Legacy Project,” this service allows users to search for valuable information about governors…users [can] learn more about these state policymakers by searching a variety of question fields – including term of …
“The SWIPE Toolkit is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver’s license or stored in some of the many commercial data …
WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications: “This new Carnegie Report studies what the intelligence community understood about Iraq’s WMD programs before the war and outlines policy reforms designed to improve threat assessments, deter transfer of WMD to terrorists, and avoid politicization of the intelligence process.” (111 pages, pdf) Two-page summary
From opensecrets.org, this website on the 2004 Presidential Election tracks the fundraising efforts of the President and the Democratic candidates, inclusive of charts that reflect receipts, cash on hand, and spending.
How to Do Everything With Google, by Fritz Schneider, Eric Fredricksen, Nancy Blachman Google ~Guide: “This online Google tutorial will occupy you from 0.5 to 8 hours, depending on how many sections you elect to skip, and how many of the examples and problems you work through. Most people spend about half an hour at …
New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced a two year pilot program to test an online dispute resolution system to address approximately one third of the more than 20,000 claims and lawsuits filed against the city annually. “The system, called Cybersettle, accelerates the resolution of claims and legal disputes by allowing parties to …
The Center for Democracy and Technology investigated problems of ID theft and fraud at state motor vehicle administration offices nationwide. They conclude, in the report referenced below, that driver license information is subject to widespread theft due to fraud and bribery, and recommend remedies to address the widespread availability of false licenses that compromise individual …
On Monday, February 2, 2004, the Office of Management and Budget released the Fiscal Year 2005 Budget of the United States. From OMB, this Table of Contents provides links to sections of the budget in pdf and HTML formats. DOJ press release on the budget: Presidents Request Supports 19% Increase For Departments Counter-Terrorism And Homeland …
In a January 30, 2004 letter to Chief Justice Rehnquist, Reps. Waxman and Conyers requested an “exam[ination] of the merits of establishing a procedure for formal review of recusal decisions by Supreme Court Justices.” This letter is a follow-up to a January 22, 2004 letter sent to Chief Justice Rehnquist by Senators Leahy and Lieberman …
Bush to Seek Intelligence Failures Probe: President Bush to Sign Executive Order Seeking Investigation of Intelligence Failures in Iraq See also this New York Times article that reports the work of the commission will encompass an examination of American intelligence work involving not only Iraq, but Libya and North Korea as well, and will not …
From the RSSWinterfest blog, links to some useful resources on RSS: RSS and the Future of Internet-Based Content Syndication (free access to 18 pages, inclusive of an executive summary and an abstract of the 135 page report, $$). 2RSS.com, a directory of RSS feeds by topic, as well as links to software, RSS readers and …
From the first UCLA Center for Communication Policy, the World Internet Report, “is the first survey of its kind to produce international comparison data (from 14 countries) on the social, political, and economic impact effects of Internet use and no-use, found that more men than women go online in all of the surveyed countries.” Press …