Hometown News

Direct Links to More Than 2,600 Daily and Weekly U.S. Newspapers!

"Home Town News is the one place where you'll find a link to all known daily and weekly U.S. newspapers with Web sites. You may either Select a State or click on a state on the map below for a list of links to online newspapers in that state."

Suggested by Elliott Parker, CARR-L

Federal Documents Archives

Every month thousands of documents disappear
from federal and state web sites. Most are removed
because they are old, outdated or revised. But some
are removed for national security or political reasons.
A few independent sites make it their business
to preserve such documents. Three of them are:

Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project
The Memory Hole
Cryptome

Suggested by John Hamlin who has also made these links available on News Web Links page off our Home Page.
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Also, don't forget:

DocuTicker

Docuticker is a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo's, think tanks, and other groups.

AT&T's LanguageLine Document Translation Services

LanguageLine translates 161 languages.

Document and/or over-the-phone translations available 24/7.

You can request translation services three ways:

1. Call 1-877-886-3885
2. Email us at info@LanguageLine.com
3. Complete an online form.

Ask for a rate quote, give them your credit card info, and expense it.

Results are available by email, fax or mail.

Summary of Findings: Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists

Pew Research Survey, June 26, 2005

"A few of the findings: Most still have a favorable opinion of their daily newspaper, although that's down slightly from 2000, although slightly more than half believe they 'mostly report facts.' Almost three quarters believe news organizations favor one side politically and a third believe news organizations actually 'hurt democracy.' Forty-four percent believe at times it is 'OK to use anonymous sources,' although 52 percent say it is too risky. The study shows a growth in online reading of newspapers: While 40 percent say they rely on the printed newspaper as a main source of news, a growing number say they rely on online sources for news, including a version of the newspaper."

From Michael Walden

Small Town Newspapers

Get the news from small (and boy are they little) town USA.

"Access to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United tates. 'Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication."' The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos, and advertisements), which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s."

Free registration required.

Oregon, Washington and Idaho papers:

Oregon:
Heppner Gazette-Times Heppner, Oregon USA
The Sun Sheridan, Oregon USA

Washington:
The Boomerang! Garfield, Washington USA
Mattawa Area News Mattawa, Washington USA
Coulee City News & Hartline Standard Coulee City, Washington USA
Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune Oroville, Washington USA
Quad City Herald Brewster, Washington USA
The South County Sun Royal City, Washington USA
The Ticket Vashon-Maury Island, Washington USA

Idaho:
Island Park News Island Park, Idaho USA
Kuna Melba News Kuna, Idaho USA
Latah Eagle Latah County, Idaho USA

Thanks to Elliot Parker from the IRE-listserv

Geographic Mobility/Migration

Census - Geographic Mobility

The Current Population Survey (CPS) includes data on the annual rate of moving, and the characteristics of movers and nonmovers by type of move for 2003 and 2004.

HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996 (HIPAA)

Now Available: HIPAA Legislation in searchable askSam Database

"The text from HIPAA is available in a searchable, hypertext-linked askSam database. The individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents in the database. This allows you to easily locate sections pertaining to specific topics."

Source: ResourceShelf

askSam users please note: The following askSam databases are available on our allshare drive. u:\AskSam data

* Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
* Patriot Act
* The 2006 U.S. Budget
* 9-11 Commission Report
* State of the Union
* HIPPA

Congressional Research Service Reports

One site fits all

University of North Texas Libraries has gathered all electronically available CRS Reports (over 6,500 thus far) together in a permanent archive. One can search the full-text or browse by subject.

"Look for a topic of interest today, such as Social Security Reform, and see how the issues may have changed since the late 1990's.... Topics range from Terrorism and Foreign Policy to Medicare and Social Security."

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) serves as the public policy research arm of Congress, and creates reports exclusively for Members, their committees and staff. Up to now, members of congress might post on their site a report of specific interest. Nexis had a few.

The effort was sponsored by NewsBank/Readex and the American Library Association.

From Mike Ravnitzky on IRE-L

SreeTips.com > New To Sree

Poynter columnist Sree Sreenivasan advises he's been using a blog to keep track of the valuable web sites he runs across.

Check it out to see what he's found.

"It's getting harder to keep track of new and useful Web sites. Every day, creative minds around the world come up with sites that can help us with work and play. But we keep going to the sites we know because we are comfortable with them.

In order to help me track new sites, I started a blog about six months ago ... The blog, "New to Sree" is constantly updated."

He admits some are not new, but they're new to him.

National Conference of State Legislatures

NCSL provides "in-depth information about America’s legislative institutions, state elections and redistricting, and state legislative web sites."

In additional, we subscribe to their print publication LegisBrief. Issued monthly, Legisbriefs are briefing papers that track the top issues facing America today. They summarize state and federal activity, provide selected references and the NCSL contact for additional information.

The Legisbrief Cumulative Index from 1993 to current provides a subject index on the web.

June/July 2005 Legisbriefs:
Preserving the Past with Tax Incentives
Education Finance Litigation
Medical Marijuana
Improving the Lives of Young People with Disabilities
Women's Legislative Caucuses
Cell Phones and Novice Drivers

Legisbriefs are available in the News Research cabinet.

Nieman Watchdog

"...put out by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Its aim is to encourage more and better watchdog reporting, and it is targeted at reporters, editors and concerned
citizens. "

Also see the Poynter article Watchdog Culture: Why You Need it, How You Can Build it recommended by Brent Walth and George Rede.

CQ Researcher - Identity Theft

Can Congress give Americans better protection?

"Assembling a new identity used to be the specialty of spies and master criminals. Now, ordinary crooks are acquiring consumers' personal information..."

* Should higher penalties or new security technologies halt identity theft?
* Should consumers be able to "freeze" their credit histories?
* Should data companies ask permission before selling a consumer's information?

These and related issues are discussed in the June 10, 2005 issue.

FEMA Photo Library -

"... collection of more than 9,200 images in the FEMA photo
library. The photo library contains thumbnail and high-resolution
images of natural disasters and terrorist events taken by FEMA's
staff of disaster field photographers. The library also consists of
images of FEMA's disaster response and recovery mission."

From our friends at ResourceShelf

Drought in Oregon

In this new website, the OSU Extension Service has compiled publications and information to help Oregonians cope with water shortages at home, in the garden and on the farm.

Suggested by Richard Hill

A Chronology of Data Breaches Since the ChoicePoint Incident

The listed data breaches have been included "because the personal information compromised includes data elements useful to identity thieves, such as Social Security numbers, account numbers, and driver's license numbers."

Most recent update is noted at the top left of the site.

News coverage of the breaches have been compiled at Virtual Chase.

From Gary Price's ResourceShelf

Zaba!
Launched in February, ZabaSearch is promoting itself as one of the most comprehensive personal-data search engines on the net. ZabaSearch provides some data for free, but charges for background checks and criminal history reports.

Note: The fee-based reports may or may not be accurate and the free data may or may not be current. A search for my name yields only two addresses from the mid-90's.

More information on ZabaSearch -

About ZabaSearch.

Can We Stop ZabaSearch -- and Similar Personal Information Search Engines?

Wired interview with ZabaSearch President Robert Zakari and chairman Nicholas Matzorkis.