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Election Maps Oct 30th
I confess I am one of THOSE people who check at least 4 electoral maps everyday. This is despite the fact that Nate Silver cautioned against daily viewing on The Daily Show. His daily column, NYT: FiveThirtyEight, and the Votemasters, electoral-vote.com, on the polls has fueled my need to check the maps everyday (okay, sometime twice a day). While …Read the Rest…
United States Courts Opinions on FDsys
Do you need a federal court opinion and not have a PACER account? The United States Courts Opinions — BETA database on FDsys is “a pilot project between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to provide public access to opinions from selected United States appellate, …Read the Rest…
Issue 107: Proposed Cleveland Municipal School Tax Levy
Issue 107 (“tax levy”) requests that a majority of Cleveland voters approve a 15 mill property tax for current operations, with one mill going to partner (e.g. charter) schools. The funds would be used to implement the Cleveland Plan, an attempt to transform the Cleveland Municipal School District (CMSD) and selected charter schools. Mayor Frank Jackson, …Read the Rest…
Legislative History “genres”
In my last post I mentioned that the technical/mechanical tools for working with legislative materials (at least at the federal level) have lately become much more accessible and, if not intuitive, at least not so much of an actual barrier to research. This has in fact been the general trend in legal information, and therefore …Read the Rest…
Regulations under the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank
Interested in the significant regulatory actions* taken under the PPACA (the Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148) or the Dodd-Frank Act (Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, P.L. 111-203)? You can easily find them on the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) site. OIRA’s site is at RegInfo.gov. Choose the “Regulatory Review” drop-down menu. From the …Read the Rest…
GPO Bookstore’s New Look
The Government Printing Office (GPO) is changing its bookstore’s home page. To see the new site click the link on the home page featuring Uncle Sam telling you to preview the beta site. The new page reminds me of my own regional public library’s digital library home page. It highlights recent releases, the week’s best sellers, and customers …Read the Rest…