News from June 2006
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park officials have reviewed the progress made by the road crews from both the east and west side, and announced Thursday that the gate at Jackson Glacier Overlook will likely swing open to traffic sometime on Saturday. This means that visitors entering from St.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Electrical circuits may act differently in Arizona than they do in Alaska-potentially affecting the performance of computers and other electronics. A new technique identifies and quantifies an important cause of this temperature sensitivity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Firefighters know that protective "turnout gear" (pants and coats) can save their lives. Yet because there are several different attributes of protective performance, choosing the turnout gear system that best matches desired performance can be complicated. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on a new report from the Government Accountability Office, “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita/Coordination between FEMA and the Red Cross Should Be Improved for the 2006 Hurricane Season," GAO-06-712. Grassley has been reviewing the Red Cross’ governance and performance as part of a broad review of tax-exempt organizations’ service to the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley today won committee passage of his legislation to improve funding for and access to family treatment programs that help families in Iowa and elsewhere overcome methamphetamine addiction and the resulting family trauma.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Thursday, Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) repeated his call for reinvigorating FEMA within the Department of Homeland Security. He also criticized the Department’s recent allocation of Fiscal Year 2006 homeland security...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Just outside Crow Agency, near Montana’s southern border, lies the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. There, in 1876, the U.S. Government launched a military campaign against bands of Sioux and Cheyenne who refused to stay on the reservation. Those Sioux and Cheyenne sought to continue their traditional nomadic way of life.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park officials and officials from the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks report that findings from a study of the male grizzly bear that was found dead near a snare after its release on May 29 indicate that the exact cause of death may never be known.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: An innovative device called a "four-poster" and chemical "tickicides" are two tools Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are using to protect the southern U.S. border from ticks that carry serious cattle disease.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC --- U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today applauded the Senate vote to approve the nomination of Ambassador Susan Schwab to become the next United States Trade Representative (USTR). Senator Baucus issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an elegantly simple technique for synthesizing a wide variety of complex surfaces that vary in a controlled fashion across a test strip. The new technique is so flexible that it can be applied to surface science experiments ranging from developing better paints to exploring the bonding of proteins to cell membranes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, released the following statement after today’s vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to HR 8, the estate tax bill...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2006
News Release: On Saturday, June 24, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Jessica Muhlin, Ph.D. candidate from the University of Maine, will present A Novel Use for an Ordinary Fruit at the Schoodic Education and Research Center. This workshop will begin with an introduction to the reproductive ecology of the rockweed, Fucus...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Government Alleges Man Prepared Fraudulent Returns WASHINGTON The Justice Department announced today that it filed suit in federal court in Phoenix to permanently bar Jeffrey R. Hunn, of Snowflake, Ariz., ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTONThe Justice Department today announced a consent agreement with Robin Singh Educational Services, Inc., d/b/a/ TestMasters, one of the nation's largest providers of preparatory courses for the ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: Thank you, and on behalf of President Bush, welcome to Washington.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: Goal is to Support What Works Well, Leads to Success WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) is making available up to $5 million to fund pilot projects aimed at increasing self-employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: NEW ORLEANS — Over the course of the summer, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division will be available on two days each week at the Good News Camp to provide compliance information to workers and to answer wage and hour-related questions. Bilingual investigators will be available to assist Spanish-speaking individuals.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 7, 2006
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By DOE Gazette | Jun 7, 2006
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on June 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
