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Many Federal Websites Again Fail to Meet Basic Standards for Speed and Security
About 91 percent of federal websites failed at least one of the government and industry standards for design and development in the latest test by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). The metrics analyzed included an assessment of speed, accessibility and security. Benchmarking U.S. Government Websites [Summary], by Daniel Castro, Galia Nurko, and Alan […]
Treasury Department scrubs paper from website
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Treasury Department removed from its website a 2012 technical paper that contradicts the statements that the Treasury Secretary has been making about corporate tax cuts. Rubin, Richard. (2017, Sep 28). Treasury removes paper at odds with Mnuchin's take on corporate-tax cut's winners. Wall Street Journal. The […]
Activists Use FOIA to Ensure Availability of Thousands of Federal Datasets
The Center for Biological Diversity has announced an effort to prevent hundreds of environmental datasets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration. Three separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for data sets have been submitted to eight federal agencies. Many (perhaps most) of the datasets requested are currently available on government […]
Cuts to Environmental Monitoring “Willfully Blinding” the Nation
Scientific American reports that many science policy experts are "startled" by the Trump administration’s proposed budget for 2018 that envisions dramatic cuts in funds for monitoring air and water quality, climate change and more. Trump Wants Deep Cuts in Environmental Monitoring, by Annie Sneed Scientific American (March 24, 2017). Pres. Donald Trump’s administration could be […]
Key Press Offices Still Not Staffed
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting says that the Trump administration has not filled key staff positions in public affairs offices, newsrooms, and media offices of many government departments and agencies. This is consistent with the administration’s well reported "glacial pace" in filling 2,000 mid-level political-appointee positions in the Executive branch. Trump in No Hurry to […]
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