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Salt Lake Tribune 11/20/00
Rolly & Wells: 22-Year-old tax bill stalks disabled Utahn
http://www.sltrib.com/11202000/utah/45375.htm

by Paul Rolly & Joann Jacobsen-Wells
Former Miss Wheelchair Utah finalist Rikki Landers of West Valley City has
lived on disability payments since 1984 and files her tax returns each year.
So she was surprised to receive a letter from GC Services, the Houston-based
collection agency for the Utah Tax Commission, which claimed she owed $169.26
in back taxes. When she reached GC supervisor John Cragan, he looked up her
account and told her the delinquent tax was from 1978.


Bergen Record 11/20/00
Libraries plan to have the answer
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/libs20200011207.htm

by D. Ian Hopper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A group of public and private libraries from around the world
is developing a free online reference service to answer research questions
from a public often overwhelmed by the Internet's wealth of information and
uncertain about its sources.
A Web site, expected to be available by June, will help direct a query to the
appropriate library. That could produce answers, for example, from a library
in Australia if the question concerns the history of Aborigines.
"We know the quality of information we have in libraries, and we want to
bring that to the Internet. We also know the chaos online," said Donna
Dinberg, systems librarian at the National Library of Canada, one of the
first participants in the Comprehensive Digital Reference Service.


New York Times 11/20/00
Clinton to issue new rules on medical data privacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/science/20PRIV.html

by Robert Pear
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - The Clinton administration will soon issue sweeping new
rules to protect the privacy of medical records. But under pressure from the
health care industry, officials say, they are backing off a proposal to give
patients a broad new right to sue and recover damages for the improper
disclosure of confidential information.
Chris Jennings, the health policy coordinator at the White House, said
President Clinton would issue the final rules, with the force of law, in the
next few weeks.
The administration is "going full steam ahead, with a full commitment" to the
goal of protecting privacy, Mr. Jennings said.


Topeka Capital-Journal 11/20/00
Historic papers found in storage
http://cjonline.com/stories/112000/com_papers.shtml

by Steve Fry
Historian Chandra Miller has uncovered about 100 treasures being stored by
institutions that didn't realize the uniqueness of what they had.
Miller's treasures, uncovered in different archives and depositories, are
regimental newspapers printed by soldiers in the Civil War.
She will talk about the newspapers and their importance to soldiers on Nov.
30 at the Civil War Round Table of Eastern Kansas. The talk will start at
6:30 p.m. in the Koch Education Center at the Kansas State Historical
Society, 6425 S.W. 6th. Admission is free, and the public is welcome.



Lexington Herald-Leader 11/20/00
Carter backs off library plan
County leaders reject plan to build public facility despite criticism
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/112000/statedocs/20nolibrary.

htm

by Roger Alford
Associated Press
GRAYSON Roy Seagraves dropped out of school in eighth grade and pulls down
$800 a week working in a factory that makes plastic bumper guards for cars.
He admits he doesn't do much reading and says the Bible, a set of
encyclopedias and the few magazines he keeps around the house are all he
needs.
Seagraves says he's survived just fine all his life in this Eastern Kentucky
county without a library, and he doesn't see a need to spend the tax dollars
to build one now.
``Us rural people out here would benefit very little from it,'' he said.
``I'm paying taxes out the rear end already.''


Hartford Courant 10/31/00
Cybervaults
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Kenneth R. Gosselin
The safe deposit box - metal cache of precious documents and possessions - is
going virtual.
Long locked in earthbound banks, the venerable safe deposit box is getting
shelf space in a growing number of cybervaults, repositories for electronic
documents.
Earlier this month, FleetBoston Financial Corp., parent of Connecticut's
largest bank, Fleet, became the first major U.S. bank to launch the service,
using a proprietary system developed with Microsoft Corp.
The introduction of the virtual safe deposit box comes at a time when banks,
brokerages and insurance companies are pouring millions of dollars into
expanding online services available to their customers.
At the same time, the field of Web file storage companies has been widening,
offering access to data from any personal computer connected to the Internet
and the option of sharing the information with others.
Blaise Heltai, managing director of global Internet strategies at
FleetBoston, sees a growing market for the service. According to one
estimate, there already are 15 million data-storage users in the U.S., Heltai
said.


Washington Post 11/16/00
Mexicans seek to lift government's veil
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61857-2000Nov10.html

by Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
MEXICO CITY -- A few years ago citizen activist Sergio Aguayo asked officials
at Los Pinos, Mexico's White House, how many people worked there. He was told
it was none of his business.
Former president Carlos Salinas, who left office in 1994, spent nearly
$400,000 a day from a public fund on political whims. Under Mexican law, he
kept the whole thing secret.
Want to know how the government spends the money from the national lottery?
How a Mexican town spends its federal education money? Why city employees are
digging up the sidewalk near your house?
Good luck.
Mexico has one of the world's worst records on public access to information,
ranking ahead of only Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Libya and China,
according to a study of freedom of information by the prestigious
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.



Las Vegas Sun 11/20/00
Complaint Kenny sought break-in
Ethics filing alleges commissioner wanted damning documents
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2000/nov/20/511062411.html

by Adrienne Packer
A former Clark County employee claims Commissioner Erin Kenny was so
determined to unseat colleague Mary Kincaid that she asked him and two others
to break into the Government Center in search of damning documents.
In an ethics complaint reminiscent of Watergate, a copy of which was obtained
by the Sun, Gene Smith wrote that Kenny was seeking paperwork that proved
county employees helped Kincaid move her flower shop on county time using
government vehicles.
Smith said he mailed his complaint to the Nevada Ethics Commission last
Thursday and faxed a copy of it to the commission today.



The Jersey Journal 11/20/00
Board of Ed members subpoenaed in Dem computer probe
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/news/jjournal/subs18.html

by Christina Joseph
UNION CITY - Several city Board of Education employees received subpoenas
last week from the state Attorney General's Office in connection with a probe
into the use of school computers by the Union City Democratic Organization,
officials said.
Board attorney Herbert Klitzner confirmed that several school employees were
served with the subpoenas and that documents will be delivered to state
investigators this week in compliance with the court orders. Klitzner would
not reveal which board employees received the summonses because "nobody is
the target."




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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