Blast (not quite) from the Past

With soaring energy prices, people around the country are talking up nuclear power. This might be a good time to pull the following item out of your depository collection:
Report on the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station
by United States. Dept. of Energy.; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.; et al
Publisher: Washington, DC [...]

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If Elected …: Unsuccessful Candidates for the Presidency

What do Thomas Jefferson, Charles C. Pickney, Rufus King, Alton Parker, Charles Hughes and Hubert Humphrey all have in common?
They are all profiled in:
“If elected–” : unsuccessful candidates for the presidency, 1796-1968
by Lillian B Miller; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Historian’s Office.; et al
Publisher: City of Washington : Published for the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, [...]

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New EPA Senior Tribal Policy Advisor

Jim Woods, a Makah tribal member, was appointed to EPA Region 10 as Senior Advisor for Tribal Policy. An EPA news release from this morning quotes Elin Miller, EPA regional administrator in Seattle as saying that “Mr. Woods brings a wealth of tribal and environmental experience to EPA that will help [...]

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Searcher Article on Government Blogging

Thanks to our statewide databases contract, the following article in Searcher Magazine is available to any Alaskan interested in federal government blogging efforts:
Government Blogging. By: Garvin, Peggy. Searcher, May2008, Vol. 16
Issue 5, p40-42, 3p
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&an=32056387&db=tfh&site=ehost&scope=site
Agencies covered include Health and Human Services, Library of Congress, and of course the GSA blog GovGab. Have you visited one of [...]

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Memorial Day History and Other Resources

Have you wondered how long we’ve been commemorating Memorial Day? Are you looking for memorials for WWII, Vietnam or other wars? Are you looking for a way to support the troops on Memorial Day? Or maybe you’re wondering what you’re going to cook. All these questions and a number of others are answered at USA.gov’s [...]

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Where to Find AGIA/TransCanada Documents

This past week, the Palin administration recommended Trans-Canada as an Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) licensee. There is extensive documentation of this decision on the governor’s AGIA website at http://www.gov.state.ak.us/agia/. Currently this page hosts an executive summary of the “findings and determinations”, but the full documentation is scheduled to be posted by May 28, 2008.

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Alaska Related Federal Pubs in April 2008

We haven’t done this for awhile, but I wanted to let you know that the Government Printing Office cataloged 19 publications mentioning Alaska during April 2008. You can find a list of these documents at:
http://catalog.gpo.gov/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=005%3D200804*+AND+WRD%3DAlaska&x=0&y=0
A few selected items of possible interest are:
National Visitor Use Monitoring implementation in Alaska [electronic resource]
2008
White, Eric M.
A 13.88:PNW-GTR-740
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS92371
This document talks [...]

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