The U.S. Supreme Court will use a 17-year-old case involving Colorado's Rocky Flats to clarify the ability of whistle-blowers to sue and collect from private contractors for the misuse of federal funds.
Read more:
Denver Post | Chicago Tribune | Seattle Times
To learn more about Rocky Flats, check out the Government Publications Library subject guide.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Declassified Government Documents
For all those readers of this blog here in Boulder, Leanne will be conducting a drop-in session on "Declassified Government Documents" this afternoon from 4-5 in E160 (the room to the right of the downstairs reference desk). She'll demonstrate some of the electronic resources available for finding declassified materials from the government. The focus will be on two databases, but will also provide a brief description of the FOIA process and show some free sources. The truth is out there. The handout for the class is available online.
Study on Higher Education
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings yesterday released a report from the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education" examines the higher education system from cost to effectiveness. The abilities of college graduates in prose and document literacy, according to a graph on page 13 (23 on the PDF), has actually fallen between 1992 and 2003. Secretary Spellings remarks discuss some of the improvements that she is recommending from increased financial aid to outcomes testing for college graduates. For a link to all the resources mentioned here along with a fact sheet and audio clips, check out the press release.
For more resources on education, check out the library's subject guide.
For more resources on education, check out the library's subject guide.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Declassified National Intelligence Estimate Document Released
From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
"This document is the declassified Key Judgments from the larger, classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States that was produced in April 2006. The NIE analyzes the nature of the threat that terrorist groups across the world will pose to US lives and interests, including the Homeland, during the next five years."
"This document is the declassified Key Judgments from the larger, classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States that was produced in April 2006. The NIE analyzes the nature of the threat that terrorist groups across the world will pose to US lives and interests, including the Homeland, during the next five years."
Junichiro Koizumi's Final Words as Japan's Prime Minister
Japan's parliament elected Shinzo Abe as its new Prime Minister Tuesday. At 52, he is Japan's youngest postwar prime minister and the first to be born after World War II.
The Japanese Prime Minister's website changed sometime this morning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (Mountain time). It is now the website of Prime Minister Abe and his Cabinet; Prime Minister Koizumi is now listed in the archives section. The Koizumi Administration site includes a profile of the Prime Minister, a link to his speeches and statements, and a link to his Cabinet's E-mail Magazine.
Read about Prime Minister Koizumi's last interview and his Cabinet's last Email Magazine entry.
The Japanese Prime Minister's website changed sometime this morning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. (Mountain time). It is now the website of Prime Minister Abe and his Cabinet; Prime Minister Koizumi is now listed in the archives section. The Koizumi Administration site includes a profile of the Prime Minister, a link to his speeches and statements, and a link to his Cabinet's E-mail Magazine.
Read about Prime Minister Koizumi's last interview and his Cabinet's last Email Magazine entry.
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