Chronicle.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Just a month after becoming president of the University of the District of Columbia, Allen L. Sessoms is locked in a battle with the institution's faculty senate, which he wants to shut down and replace with a new forum of students and faculty and staff members.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
WINDSOR, Conn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ING is pleased to announce that it has been re-affirmed by the District of Columbia as the sole provider for its DC PLUS 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan. The strength of ING's continued relationship with the District of Columbia reinforces its commitment to the government market, and illustrates the strong momentum it continues to gain...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
With about three weeks to go, 34 states and the District of Columbia are considered solidly behind a candidate: 19 for John McCain and 15 plus D.C. for Barack Obama.
The Blade (Free subscription) | yesterday
The District of Columbia has made a major shift and has dumped Microsoft is favor of Google. It seems that the computer network was being plagued by cost over runs and viruses were running rampant. In comes Google which offers the city IT bigwig the use of their online applications for a paltry $500K. The [...]
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The latest move of the Growth Machine is a proposal that DC create a community college separate from the University of the District of Columbia. (See " New Talk of D.C. Community College " and " Why Washington Needs a Community College " from the Post and " D.C. needs community college, new Brookings Institution report claims " and " Allen Sessoms: 'Get it right or close it' " from the Washington...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Gore to be em-bear-assed On October 2, 2008, Pacific legal Foundation filed a complaint in the federal district court of the District of Columbia challenging the listing of the polar bear as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act. PLF represents a wide spectrum of small businesses, food producers, family farmers, property owners, employers and consumers as well the poor and...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the continued legal wrangling about the status of the 17 Uighur detainees in Guantanamo Bay. On the evening of October 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked the release of the Uighur detainees, which had been ordered by the lower District Court on October...
The Quick and the Ed (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Although Eduwonkette and Sherman Dorn are treating it like news, the case of Art Siebens was actually cited by Leo Casey of the UFT on Edwize back in August. In brief, Siebens is an AP science teacher in the District of Columbia who recently lost his job. Supporters have created a Web site making the case that he's a great teacher and his dismissal was unfair. While Dorn went on to note the...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pandemic Preparedness in the States: An Assessment of Progress and Opportunity Source: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Over the course of 2007 and early 2008, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) conducted nine regional pandemic preparedness workshops involving all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four of the [...]
Market Wire - Telecom (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Chalk Media Corp. (TSX VENTURE: CKM) today announced that one of the world's largest investment managers has signed a software licensing agreement for Mobile chalkboard(TM), Chalk's BlackBerry(R) communication software. Mobile chalkboard(TM) will be used to cut overhead and save money on internal training and priority communications.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Reconnect, a free Dell and Goodwill Industries drop-off program to recycle unwanted computers, was introduced here today for residents of Virginia and the District of Columbia area. Virginia is the third U.S. state to implement a statewide Reconnect program.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Wednesday issued a temporary stay of a district court order requiring the federal government to release 17 Uighur detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. A three-judge panel wrote: The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for...
R. Enochs, Esq. (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
L ast night the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an administrative stay pursuant to the Department of Justice's request temporarily blocking the release of 17 Chinese Muslims--known as Uighurs--who were ordered to be release by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina earlier this week. The stay was issued, in a one-page order by the D.C. Circuit, to give them "sufficient...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Shell Oil Products U.S., a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, agreed with the attorneys general of 46 states and the District of Columbia to help curb sales of tobacco products to minors at about 13,000 gas stations.
Patent Baristas (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
As we saw in the Wyeth v. Dudas case, the US District Court for the District of Columbia overturned the USPTO’s interpretation of 35 USC § 154 (the statute that prescribes patent terms). Section 154 grants extensions of patent terms for certain kinds of PTO delay. However, Congress says you can’t double-dip, i.e., to the extent [...]
