Sunday, April 13, 2014
Government agency NTIS charges for docs you can get online for free, loses money doing itGood thing a bipartisan bill aims to end that embarrassing situation. The things the National Technology Information Service does which don’t involve charging hundreds of dollars for free stuff and bleeding …Friday, April 11, 2014
The DATA Act and legislative definitionsAndrea Peterson reports1 at The Washington Post the Senate has passed a bill, the DATA Act, which would require federal financial data be published in a common format. It sounds like a great idea and something those nerdy data journalists are going to love. …Saturday, August 10, 2013
Legislative failure to define essential terms The definition of terms essential to the application of a law is the most basic requirement for competent lawmaking. Sometimes one or more terms are appropriately defined in an open way, to provide flexibility in the application of a law. This is not one …