Thursday, February 11th, 2010
I have been watching CNN reporters trotting around Washington D.C. knocking on doors to empty government buildings for the last couple of days during the government shut-down due to the blizzard. Even the USPS has indicated there are disruptions in service. But not the GPO! Our Government Printing Office has ...Sunday, April 5th, 2009
An obscure provision in the 2005 Transportation Bill passed by Congress and signed by George W. Bush has allowed the paper industry to reap millions of dollars in tax subsidies for adding diesel fuel to processes that do not require it for the production of paper. The Nation's Christopher ...Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I had a chance to peruse the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF link) (the so-called economic stimulus package), all 407 pages of it, online in PDF format. Not that I was thinking there was anything in it for me, mind you. But a client asked me what ...Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
For over 20 years Carl Malamud has published government information on the Internet. His Public.Resource.Org is a digital repository of millions of pages of legal documents. Now Malamud is looking to "reboot .gov" with his campaign Yes We Scan to become the next Public Printer of the United States. In a prepared ...Friday, January 30th, 2009
Kodak’s Antonio Perez and Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy were among a delegation of 13 tech industry CEOs who visited the White House Wednesday to discuss President Obama’s economic rescue plan. It was the first corporate sit down by the new President. Those who attended lent support to President Obama's ...Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
A book publisher contacted us with concerns about the impact of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) on print on-demand production of books: We are a book publisher who thanks to your newsletters have become aware of the benefits of using print-on-demand when introducing new titles or reprinting slower selling ...Friday, November 7th, 2008
Xerox Chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy joins others from the private and public sectors on the Obama Transition Economic Advisory Board: There will be several prominent members from both the private and public sectors on Obama's economic transition board, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence ...
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