http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs Another amazing bgsu blog Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:14:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CDC Guidance for Responses to Influenza for Institutions of Higher Education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year Released August 20, 2009, this document provides guidance to help decrease the spread of glue among students, faculty, and staff of institutions of higher education and post-secondary educational institutions during the 2009-2010 academic year. It suggests ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/08/21/h1n1-guidelines/ President's Surveillance Program Report The Inspector General's Report reveals that the Bush White House pulled in a great quantity of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged. The report, mandated by Congress last year was delivered to lawmakers Friday, July 10, 2009. http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/07/14/unclassified-report-on-the-presidents-surveillance-program/ Want a cheap vacation? Visit the National Park Service website to search for a park that is fee-free. http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparks.htm http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/06/30/fee-free-weekends-in-your-national-parks/ Governor Strickland's Proposed Balance Budget Framework  In a press release issued Friday, June 19, 2009, the Governor announced his suggestions for the House/Senate budget conference committee on how to pare another $3.2 Billion from the F10-F11 state operating budget bill. These suggestions consist of $2.4 Billion in additional agency cuts as ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/06/22/governor-ted-strickland-proposes-balanced-budget-framework/ The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has just posted its latest update to the Consumer's Guide to Intelligence. The new guide" is available at http://www.dni.gov/reports/IC_Consumers_Guide_2009.pdf This gives a nice overview of the Intelligence Community and intelligence process. Other DNI reports are available from their reports page http://www.dni.gov/reports.htm http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/05/29/national-intelligence-a-consumers-guide/ The Law Library of Congress has launched a new resource on Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor http://www.loc.gov/law/find/sotomayor.php. The site contains information on articles and books by Sotomayor, Congressional documents, cases, and web resources. http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/05/29/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-nominee/ Show Us the Data: Most Wanted Federal Documents is a report that was published by the Center for Democracy and Technology and issued March, 2009. "This report has been timed in order to inform the changes in open government policies that are now underway. Suggestions for specific documents and data ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/03/27/top-ten-most-wanted-government-documents/ Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) is a federal-state cooperative standardized program designed to identify, describe and track the impact of large job cutbacks. A mass layoff event occurs when an establishment has at least 50 initial unemployment compensation claims filed against it within a five-week period and the layoff lasts longer ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/03/27/ohio-mass-layoff-statistics-quarterly-reporting/ The Alliance for Taxpayer Access today posted an announcement that President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/03/20/nih-public-access-policy-now-permanent/ The Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age has released their new report - "Nation at Risk: Policy Makers Need Better Information to Protect the Country" http://www.markle.org/events/20090310_nar/20090304_mtf_report.pdf Greta E. Marlatt, Naval Postgraduate School Librarian, reports: The report includes 5 recommendations to accelerate creation of an Information Sharing Framework - ... http://blogs.bgsu.edu/govdocs/2009/03/12/national-security-in-the-information-age/