LisNews (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Executive Order No. 12958 states that , with a few exceptions, federal records are to be automatically declassified when they become 25 years old. Even so, said the Archives' Jeanne Schauble, "no agencies have been willing to let their records be automatically declassified without them having some opportunity to make sure there's nothing in them they feel needs continued classification." "It gets...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The largest public employee union in the United States channeled more than $5 million to a series of non-profits running attack ads, federal records indicate. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees donated nearly $5.5 million to Campaign Money Watch, Patriot Majority and Patriot Majority Midwest, which spent more than $2 million on ads critical...
WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
"Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post on the Web," writes Robert...
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Government accountability may be more of a slogan than a reality if agencies continue to fall down on their recording-keeping obligations. According to the New York Times, countless federal records have been irretrievably lost because federal employees regularly fail to...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
From the article: Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post on the Web. Federal agencies have rushed to embrace the Internet and new information technology, but their record-keeping [...]
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
I'm sure organizations spending mega$ to comply with records retention regulations are amused... Countless federal records are being lost to posterity because federal employees, grappling with a staggering growth in electronic records, do not regularly preserve the documents they create on government computers, send by e-mail and post on the Web. Federal agencies have rushed to embrace the Internet...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
P Diddy says he ain’t gonna fly his jet no more, no way, no how. Why? Because oil is expensive? No. Because he ain’t got no jet. No way. No how: Says she: Diddy has never owned a private jet, according to federal records. One private aviation source scoffed: “It’s my jet this, my jet that. [...]
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
After Sean “Diddy” Combs filmed a video blog complaining about having to give up flights on his private jet because of high fuel prices, the Palm Beach Post decided to do a little investigating. The newspaper said it reviewed federal records that showed that no plane in this country is registered to a Sean Combs [...]
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
“You probably don’t doubt that the origins of rock and roll are bawdy in nature. You’ve read Gershon Legman and his fellow travelers to take note. You know why Scheherazade was not killed by the king. Yet you don’t know American record label Federal Records and their 1951 “Sixty Minute Man“[1], on which a male singer [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
WASHINGTON — The United States is spending more money than ever on private security contractors in Iraq as thousands of troops return home amid steady declines in insurgent attacks, federal records show.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Transportes Los Norteños has had buses placed out of service 41 times since 2006 for issues such as bad tires and brake problems. Although federal records show the company has a Houston address, its buses reportedly are kept in Monterrey, Mexico.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act without investigation, according to a Des Moines Register review of state and federal records. Since the rule took effect in 2003, 38,000 U.S.
QandO (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
I know this is one of the things Billy Hollis feels rather strongly about, and I know this came out a couple of months ago , but it is always a good idea to remind everyone - when reading the "news" about the campaigns - where the "journalistic" money trail leads. An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a...
The Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Sixteen prisoners have died at correctional center in recent years, nearly half from homicides and suicides, state and federal records show.
WILLisms.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Obama Messiamania - You've probably already seen this, but here is some evidence of a new level of absurd media bias : An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans . Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats,...
