Posted in Resources, state documents on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the recent nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be vice-President on the Republican ticket, there has been a surge of interest in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Here is a copy and paste of the Community Profile for Wasilla from the Community Profiles Database from the state’s Division of Community and Regional Affairs:
Wasilla
(WAH-sill-ah)
For [...]
Posted in Education, Federal government, tagged congress on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The well-dressed documents oriented site has a new must-have accessory.
Check out the CQ Political Bedfellows widget at http://www.cqpress.com/pages/bedfellows. It’s the most dead-easy way to compare congressional voting records. According to the site, this widget quickly answers questions like:
How closely aligned are Barack Obama and John McCain? Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?
Barney Frank and Newt [...]
Posted in ALA GODORT, Canadian Documents on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Summer 2008 issue of Documents to the People has a good article on finding Canadian public information at the provincial level:
News from the North: Maintaining Bibliographic Integrity for Provincial Documents during the E-Gov Transition by Mike McCaffery. Dttp, v.36, no. 2, Summer 2008, p. 9
Mike first notes that no one source provides a truly [...]
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