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Richmond Times Dispatch 02/19/01
Keeping an eye on business history
Library of Virginia collection traces development of commerce
http://www.timesdispatch.com/business/MGBJWZAKDJC.html

by Chip Jones
The Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia must have been a busy place the day
after Christmas in 1795.
On that day, the Richmond insurance company issued a slew of home insurance
policies from its plain wooden offices at the corner of Governor and Franklin
streets in Richmond.
The concept of insuring homes was the brainchild of W.F. Ast, a native of
Prussia who brought to America the idea of mutual help in time of trouble,
especially from fire.
On Dec. 26, 1795, the Mutual Assurance Society issued policies large and
small, according to company records in the archives of the Library of
Virginia.



E&P Online 02/19/01
Feds mull court-record access in cyberspace
Rule-making in a wired world group
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/021901n5.htm

by Todd Shields
WASHINGTON - During last year's presidential vote recount battle, Florida
courts quickly posted lawyers' filings and counterfilings on the Internet.
For journalists craving access to the historic arguments, the rapid-fire Web
postings showed a promising face to the brave new world of electronic court
documents.



Austin American-Statesman 02/16/01
Court says Georgetown can keep study secret
http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/friday/metro_state_2.html

by Bruce Hight
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday reinforced the right of state and local
government bodies to keep information confidential if it is connected with a
lawsuit in which they are a party.
In a 5-3 ruling, the court told the City of Georgetown that it did not have
to disclose to the Austin American-Statesman a consultant's engineering
report on a city sewage plant that was commissioned because of a lawsuit
against the city.



CBS Marketwatch.com 02/19/01
Set up a filing system for your records
http://www2.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BDF7BB51D%2D6E08%2D4B6E%2DAB

7E%2D1848183B542F%7D&source=htx/http2_mw

by Marshall Loeb
This is the eighth chapter of personal finance guru and CBS.MarketWatch.com
columnist Marshall Loeb's new book, "52 Weeks to Financial Fitness." Each
Monday throughout 2001, we will bring you a new chapter.
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- My wife, God bless her, is always urging me to clean out
our old financial records -- all those ancient checks and receipts that take
up half the garage already. But I'm a compulsive collector. I believe that
you should save just about everything, just about forever. So, how long
should you really hang on to your documents?




New York Times 02/19/01
End of an era as Typewriter store prepares to close
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/nyregion/19TYPE.html

by Glenn Close
After more than 66 years in the platen and paper-bail trade, the Tytell
Typewriter Company, an iconic repair and rental store in Manhattan, is
preparing to close its doors.
Bowing to the hegemony of the word processor, the store at 116 Fulton Street
"is not taking new repair orders and the business is closing," said Peter V.
Tytell, the 55-year-old son of the founder, Martin, 87, who retired last
February after lugging typewriters for close to three quarters of a century.



USA Today 02/19/01
Female taxpayers race to square name change
Applications for replacement Social Security cards soar since tax problem
surfaced
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010219/3077058s.htm

by Sandra Block
With the deadline for filing federal tax returns less than 2 months away,
thousands of women are scrambling to make sure their names square up with
both Social Security and the IRS -- including some whose records were lost
years ago.
Last fall, the Internal Revenue Service informed 2.4 million taxpayers who
file joint returns that one of the names on their 1999 return didn't match
the Social Security number on file with the IRS. Unless they solved the
problem, the IRS warned, the couple could lose a personal exemption or risk a
delay in their 2000 tax refund.



Financial Times 02/19/01
Fresh questions over NYSE trade practices
http://markets.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3P5SLDDJC&li

ve=true&tagid=ZZZGF39D20C&subheading=US%20equities

by John Labate in New York
Documents that have recently come to light at the New York Stock Exchange
have generated fresh questions about illegal trading practices at the NYSE in
the early 1990s.
Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Attorney's
office confirmed they were examining whether senior NYSE officials were aware
of illegal trading activities dating back to 1992.



Wall Street Journal 02/17/01
New documents may shed light on what NYSE knew about 'flipping'
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB982369047579719192.htm

by Greg Ip
The U.S. Attorney's office and the Securities and Exchange Commission are
looking into the origins of new documents related to what the New York Stock
Exchange knew about questionable trading by floor brokers in the early 1990s.
In a recent deposition, an NYSE official said he had recently met with
officials from both the SEC and from the U.S. Attorney's office to discuss
documents related to "intraday" trading.



The Virginian-Pilot 02/19/01
After flood, Chesapeake reviews filing system
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0219rec.html

by Amy Jeter
CHESAPEAKE -- At 5 a.m., Michelle F. Capucci slips into Circuit Courtroom 6,
selects a handful of legal folders and examines the papers' edges for gray,
green or pink mildew splotches.
When she finds one, she photocopies the page, tosses the ruined original into
a blue bag for shredding and re-assembles the file -- one of more than 2,500
damaged when a water pipe burst in the courthouse nearly two months ago.
Without the drama of an unexpected flood, the storage and dumping of city
documents rarely takes center stage.




The Virginian-Pilot 01/22/01
Ocean View's museum of memorabilia may be revived
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0122nei.html

by Mike Knepler
The old Ocean View trolley left years ago. And it isn't coming back.
But a trolley conductor's seat soon will be displayed along the old streetcar
route. And that could hasten the return of the Ocean View Station Museum,
which closed in 1995.
So works the mind of Rusty Brown, a retired teacher who moved to the
Willoughby part of Ocean View six years ago.
The lore of this somewhat Bohemian community worked its way into Brown's
soul. He's now chairman of the Ocean View Station Museum committee.



The Indian Express 02/19/01
His building killed 100, he's on the run, his files missing
http://www.indian-express.com/ie/daily/20010219/ina19017.html

by Joydeep Ray
Ahmedabad, Feb 18: First, a ready reckoner on Satish Shah of S N Builders:
He's the builder of Shikhar Apartments which crumbled to dust on January 26,
killing 100 residents. Shah also threatened survivors from filing a police
complaint, got some of them beaten up and then issued an affidavit which
painted him as a honest-to-goodness builder who had saved lives.



Long Term Care Provider.com 02/19/01
Joint Commission resources publishes "From Practice to Paper: Documentation
for Long Term Care Organizations"
http://www.longtermcareprovider.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID={D4253A3F-0

449-11D5-A770-00D0B7694F32}&Bucket=HomeLatestHeadlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO

Joint Commission Resources (JCR) announces publication of From Practice to
Paper: Documentation for Long Term Care Organizations. JCR is a subsidiary of
the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.



Chicago Sun Times 02/19/01
Mormons to release ex-slaves' records
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/morm19.html

by Cathleen Falsani
Religion Reporter
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plans to release a CD-ROM
later this month bearing thousands of records from the Freedman's Bank, a
national post-Civil-War-era bank for freed slaves, the Chicago Sun-Times has
learned.
Historians say the bank records are invaluable for African Americans trying
to trace their ancestry because, in many cases, they contain extensive
information about the account-holder's family, military record, employer and
the names of their former slave owners.



New Zealand News 02/20/01
Definition of 'document' crucial in hacker cases
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=173013&thesection=technolog

y&thesubsection=general

A convicted computer hacker is attempting to clear his name in the Appeal
Court, reports PETER GRIFFIN.
The inadequacies of New Zealand laws covering computer misuse are once more
in the spotlight as two controversial and long-running computer-hacking cases
go before the courts again.
Convicted computer hacker Borislav Misic will take his two-year-old case to
the Court of Appeal this month in a bid to overturn his 1999 fraud
convictions for cracking Telecom's phone network and running up $80,000 worth
of long-distance calls.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 02/16/01
New 'LincolnCam' displays progress on museum construction
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/News/wires.nsf/StateRegion/923FEE2145072C7F8625

69F5007ED1E0?OpenDocument

Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Abraham Lincoln fans can turn to the Internet to
track construction progress of the Lincoln library and museum.
The state has created a ``LincolnCam'' web site that shows the site of the
new museum. The address is www.state.il.us/lincolncam.



Fort Worth Star Telegram 02/18/01
Bill would let workers see their personnel files; The sponsor says employees
are entitled to the records, but some firms might dislike the proposal
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:BIZ11C/1:BIZ11C0218101.html

by Glen Fest
Ever wonder what's in your personnel file at work?
You may not need to if a legislative proposal that would allow workers to
inspect employment records is passed.
"Why shouldn't an employee be empowered to come in and look at their
personnel file?" said state Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, who proposed the
bill. "It doesn't seem all that intrusive to me."



New York Times 02/19/01
State subpoenas records of Bronx community group
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/nyregion/19BANA.html

by Amy Waldman
The New York State attorney general's office has subpoenaed the financial
records of the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association to determine
whether there are grounds for a civil or criminal case against the agency, a
nonprofit organization that owns or manages dozens of buildings in the South
Bronx.
The agency, which was once seen as a model for grass-roots neighborhood
redevelopment, has struggled in recent years, and some former employees and
board members have expressed concern about its management practices.




The Spokesman-Review 02/19/01
The house that jazz built
UI museum would showcase jazz history
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=021901&ID=s923163

by Hannelore Sudemann
MOSCOW, Idaho _ Michael Tarabulski is a lucky man.
The University of Idaho archivist gets to spend his days with the likes of
Lionel Hampton, Al Grey and Ella Fitzgerald.
Tarabulski works in a basement room of the student union building, combing
through more than 300 boxes of their onetime belongings.



Pittsburgh Post Gazette 02/18/01
Unexplained overruns a pattern in Pittsburgh Housing Authority records
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000218housingmainreg2.asp

by Mike Bucsko and Timothy McNulty
Two years ago, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh accepted a
$297,200 bid from a South Hills contractor to replace and repair sidewalks at
two public housing developments in the Hill District.
By the time the work was done at the end of 1999, the Housing Authority had
paid Tony Baiano Construction Co. Inc. $1.52 million, more than five times
the original bid.





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

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