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Atlanta Journal Constitution 2/28/01
Atlanta vendor jacked up costs after winning unbid contract
<http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/wednesday/news_a3
c99a9cf0a0222c1000.html>

by Richard Whitt
A small Atlanta company that got $10 million in city business without bids
or City Council oversight charged nearly double what it had proposed for
much of the work, documents show.
The city paid TDC Systems Integration Inc. $2.7 million to supply technical
staff at Hartsfield International Airport after rejecting proposals from
four competing firms.


Arkansas Democrat Gazette 02/28/01
Deal near on Clinton donor lists
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Wed/ark/A01xlibrary28.html

by Elisa Crouch
After a flurry of offers and counteroffers Tuesday, Congress and the Clinton
library foundation were close to an agreement over how to disclose the
foundation's donor records to investigators while protecting the privacy of
its contributors.
Members of the House Committee on Government Reform haggled with the William
J. Clinton Presidential Foundation into the evening over who would see the
foundation's contributor and pledge lists, and how the panel would pursue
additional foundation records.



Arkansas Democrat Gazette 02/28/01
Editorial: General Jodie leads the charge against the FOIA
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Wed/edi/wopOakley28.html

Meredith Oakley
The public's right to know is under attack again in the Arkansas General
Assembly, but this time the results could be devastating. How three
particularly reprehensible bills fare will tell the tale.
Periodically since the inception of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act
of 1967, organizations that represent cities and counties, lawyers and real
estate brokers have tried to remove their maneuvering from the public arena
to behind closed doors.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 02/28/01
Changes to state law on open records backed
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/feb01/open28s1022701a.asp

by Dennis Chaptman
Madison - Changes to Wisconsin's open records law that create guidelines for
the public release of information about government employees won broad-based
support Tuesday.
A state Assembly committee heard testimony from journalists and public
worker unions backing the proposal, which lays out ground rules for the
release of records of public employees.



Washington Post 02/28/01
Funds to save freed slave records sought
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2932-2001Feb28.html

by Linda Wheeler
Howard University president H. Patrick Swygert, who promised an "army of
scholars" from the school to assist with the effort to preserve historic
Freedmen's Bureau records, has called on Congress to fully fund preservation
legislation passed last fall.



Evansville Courier & Press 02/28/01
County Clerk willing to store records in Old Courthouse
<http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200102/28+courthouse022801_ne
ws.html+20010228+news>

by Susan Taylor
Legal records may once again find a home in the Old Courthouse.
On Monday, Vanderburgh County Clerk Marsha Abell said she would be willing
to move 40,000 cubic feet of legal records into the historic facility.
That move could put $80,000 to $100,000 into the Old Courthouse, which is in
financial trouble.



Lexington Herald-Leader 02/28/01
Paintsville doctor's records are seized
Physician says he halted OxyContin prescriptions
<http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/022801/statedocs/28raid.ht
m>

by Lee Mueller
Eastern Kentucky Bureau
PAINTSVILLE State and federal investigators yesterday seized records from
the office of a Paintsville doctor who moved to town seven months ago and
attracted so many patients he had to hire a security guard to keep order in
his waiting room.



Korea Herald 02/28/01
Document on Japan's conscription found
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/03/01/200103010057.asp

By Kim Hyung-jin

An official Japanese document containing orders for the forced mobilization
of Korean students during the Second World War (1939-45) was made public for
the first time at an exhibition in Ulsan yesterday.
The document, which was written in May 4, 1944, shows the Japanese Education
Ministry made its 13th "full mobilization order" on two Korean schools to
conscript their students into the Japanese imperial army.



Macon Telegraph 02/28/01
Authority chief had Westside documents car
http://web.philly.com/content/macon/2001/02/28/local/Westside.htm

by Thomas W. Krause and Randall Savage
A month before an accountant for the Bibb County Development Authority
requested financial documents from Westside Boosters Inc., several of those
documents were already in the possession of authority Chairman Tom Moody.
They were in three boxes of Westside documents in the trunk of his car.




Los Angeles Times 03/01/01
House panel to get Clinton Library donor list
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010301/t000018255.html

by Richard A. Serrano, Strephen Braun
WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators will review the names of large
donors to former President Clinton's library foundation under an agreement
reached Wednesday between a House committee and Clinton's attorney.
The agreement, coming after the foundation first balked at turning over
documents listing donors of $5,000 or more, means that staff lawyers for the
House Government Reform Committee will begin examining the records Friday.



Los Angeles Times 03/01/01
Pipeline to History
By Bill Locey
Special to The Times
When a painter is standing on the sidewalk scraping paint off the front
window, it's time for a new exhibit at the California Oil Museum in Santa
Paula. And there is no more appropriate setting for a collection of
photographs documenting the oil industry over the last 100 years or so. The
new exhibit opens Sunday and runs through June 17.




New York Times 03/01/01
Privacy's guarded prognosis
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/01/technology/01MEDI.html

by Katie Hafner
INDIGNATION still rises in Dr. John Sheehan, an endocrinologist in Westlake,
Ohio, when he recounts the time a woman promoting pharmaceuticals showed up
in his office two years ago armed with juice and bagels for the office staff
and a printout from a computer database for him.
"After the preliminary niceties, she asked me if I wanted to see a list of
my perimenopausal patients who were not on estrogen replacement therapy,"
Dr. Sheehan recalled. The intimation, he said, was that such patients, on
the verge of menopause or in its early stages, should be placed on a brand
of estrogen manufactured by her firm's parent company, a major drug maker.




Washington Post 03/01/01
Judge orders madam's list saved
Shredded records alleged to include some Frederick officials
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6066-2001Feb28.html

by David Snyder
A Frederick County Circuit Court judge yesterday ordered a confessed madam
to preserve her client lists, shortly after her attorney had shredded most
of the documents, which allegedly contain the names of prominent figures in
Frederick.
Lawyers for the Associated Press and the Frederick News-Post asked Judge G.
Edward Dwyer to halt the shredding yesterday, shortly after they learned
that Angelika E. Potter had ordered her attorney to destroy the documents.




The Log Cabin Democrat 03/01/01
'The Professors' longtime act to be archived at UCA
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/022801/loc_0228010022.shtml

by Fred Petrucelli
Very few important matters slip through the net of archivist Jimmy Bryant.
The University of Central Arkansas overseer of the archives has snared a
provocative "keeper" for his entries in "The Professors," a musical
aggregation that has been entertaining off and on the campus since the
1960s.
The group of UCA professors, the majority of whom are retired from teaching,
will be "immortalized" at a 2 p.m. reception ceremony Thursday at Torreyson
Library and their exhibits preserved for all time in the archives section.




Silicon Alley News 02/28/01
Two centuries of NY Post archives to hit the Web
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_701261,00.html

by @NY Staff
Interested in life in the Big Apple in the 1800s but don't want to squint
through microfilm at the library?
The New York Post, the nation's oldest continuously published daily
newspaper, said it would digitize and make the microfilm of its 200-year-old
archives available on the Web.




Chicago Sun Times 03/01/01
Joplin archive up for auction
http://www.suntimes.com/output/show/janis28.html

by Larry McShane
Associated Press
NEW YORK--The image of Janis Joplin, dead now for 30 years, remains fixed: a
blues-belting, bourbon-drinking rock icon who lived fast and died young.
But in a series of letters she wrote in 1965, two years before her
breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, a different Janis
Joplin emerges: a studious homebody, singing alone in her room, battling the
demons that eventually claimed her life.




Vibe Magazine 02/26/01
Columbia University to open Malcolm X archive
http://www.vibe.com/new/vibewire/20010226/news05.html

On the 36th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, Columbia University has
formally announced the creation of a comprehensive archive of Malcolm X's
speeches, other writings, and filmed interviews that would be open to the
public.



Canada NewsWire 02/28/01
The New York Post and Cold North Wind to publish newspaper archives on the
Internet
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/February2001/28/c7376.html

200 Years of New York's History to be Available Online in its Original
Published Format NEW YORK, OTTAWA, Feb. 28 /CNW/ - New York Post and Cold
North Wind Corp. announced today they signed a letter of intent to digitize
and publish the microfilm archives of the New York Post newspaper and make
it available on the Internet.



People's Daily 02/28/01
Historical document proves Taiwan belongs to China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200102/28/eng20010228_63669.html

A historic document shown to the public Wednesday in Taipei proves once
again China's undeniable sovereignty over Taiwan
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/taiwan.html>.




New York Times 03/01/01
Case on Earnhardt photos postponed
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CAR-Earnhardt-Autopsy-Photos.html
?searchpv=aponline>

Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt's widow will have to wait another
week before trying to stop a newspaper from obtaining copies of her
husband's autopsy photos.
A hearing set for Thursday among attorneys for Teresa Earnhardt, The Orlando
Sentinel and Volusia County on releasing autopsy photos of the NASCAR driver
was postponed because of a scheduling conflict.



News-Record 03/01/01
Records "pitiful", auditor says
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/[ifsigned.htm

by Scott Andron
RALEIGH -- Invoices scattered about the office. No basic accounting records.
Missing computer files.
Those are the conditions state auditors say they found when they arrived at
offices of the Guilford County Community Action Program last April.
"It was pitiful," auditor Bill Scott testified Wednesday at a hearing on the
fate of the troubled Greensboro-based nonprofit. "It was in disarray. There
was not any kind of accounting."




Salt Lake Tribune 03/01/01
Former IHC official charged in theft of $58K from company
http://www.sltrib.com/03012001/utah/75703.htm

by Shawn Foster
The former chief financial officer of a branch of the Intermountain Health
Care company was charged Wednesday with stealing more than $58,000 from the
business.
According to court documents, Martin "Marty" Evers, 46, of Salt Lake City,
pocketed $58,182 from 1996 to 1999, when he resigned. An accountant who
performed an internal audit discovered the alleged theft.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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