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RAIN 04/27:"Pursue other interests" and "we want those thing"



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Interesting quotes in today's stories. The first story comes to us courtesy
of Paul Scott
Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of the website for the article
Denton County Record 4/25/00
E-Mail: Records shredded
Wrench resigns amid allegations
http://www.dentonrc.com/archived_news_4252k.asp

by Charles Siderius
Denton County's administrative director resigned this morning after
allegations surfaced that he failed to produce public documents specifically
requested by the Denton Record-Chronicle during his last two months at the
county judge's office.
Pete Wrench, 35, announced he was resigning to "pursue other interests,"
said Shala Blackmon, the county's deputy director of administration.


What a wonderful story about volunteers and the role they play. And a good
picture with the article, too.

The Daily Herald 4/26/00
Preserving the Past
Museum volunteers collect and catalog Snohomish history
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/00/4/26/12544341.htm

by Leslie Moriarty
SNOHOMISH -- Middy Ruthruff, Victoria Harrington and Ann Tuohy are living in
the past.
Each Tuesday morning, they creep down the stairs to the basement of
Blackman's Museum, stepping back in time.
They may sort old photographs, clip yellowed newspapers or dig through old
yearbooks.
"It's all in the name of saving history," Ruthruff said. "We figure,
somebody's got to do it. Why not us?"
About seven years ago, Tuohy joined the women in the museum basement and
became the person in charge of clipping and filing obituaries.


Canoe.ca 4/26/00
Ontario government violated savers' privacy, commissioner finds
http://www.canoe.ca/OntQueTicker/CANOE-wire.Ontario-Privacy.html

TORONTO (CP) -- The Ontario government violated the privacy of thousands of
clients of the provincial savings office and then hindered a probe into the
breach, an investigation has concluded.
In a scathing report released Wednesday, Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian
blasts the province for putting roadblocks in her way and urges legislative
changes to prevent similar problems in future.
"It's time that we get the powers we need to be able to conduct proper
investigations," Cavoukian said in an interview.

Maybe Mr. Saklad should be pursuing these public records. mmmmmmmm?
Boston Herald 4/26/00
Records show Bechtel paid Weld pal big $
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/reco04262000.htm

by Jonathan Wells, Jack Meyers and Maggie Mulvihill
When a network television producer asked Big Dig officials in 1994 for
records showing payments to a politically connected consultant, they said no
such records existed.
That was not true.
Those records do exist, and they detail payments to the consultant, Peter
Berlandi, who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from the artery
while he also served as chief fund-raiser for then-Gov. William F. Weld.


Los Angeles Times 4/24/00
Safeguards for Patients' privacy could actually backfire
http://www.latimes.com/news/health/20000424/t000038471.html

Washington Post
WASHINGTON--Doctor groups and privacy advocates have charged that new
government rules, touted as protecting patients' confidentiality, will
instead make it easier for employers, researchers, law-enforcement
officials, the federal government and others to gain access to people's
medical records without their consent.
The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing some 53,000 public
comments on the proposed regulations, which were announced last fall and are
expected to be issued in final form in the next few months.


Reuters 4/21/00
Hopes for paperless office buried in paper
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000421/12/tech-trees2

by Andrea Orr
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Remember the paperless office?
No one talks about it much anymore, maybe because they are too busy printing
out e-mails, articles from online newspapers, and all the other written
material they now have access to thanks to the wonders of technology.
But as Earth Day arrives on Saturday, environmentalists say a society that
has so readily embraced technology should remember one of the promised
benefits that the Internet has failed to deliver.



Washington Post 4/26/00
Judge asked to probe White House E-mails
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14940-2000Apr25.html

by George Lardner Jr
Judicial Watch, the conservative group that discovered a White House failure
to retrieve thousands of e-mails under subpoena, yesterday denounced
independent counsel Robert W. Ray's investigation of the missing records as
a face-saving gesture and asked a federal judge to conduct his own inquiry.
In papers filed with U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, Judicial Watch
charged that Ray's decision to conduct his inquiry in conjunction with the
Justice Department was "improper" and made it highly unlikely that the
government would get to the bottom of the controversy.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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