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RAIN 6/14: Flood damage, Carnivore, FEC pulls records



There are over 20 stories in this posting

Internet.com 6/13/01
DriveSavers to rescue Houston flood damaged data
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article/0,2198,3531_784231,00.html

by Michael Singer
The floods unleashed by remnants of Tropical Storm Allison over the weekend 
are being blamed for the deaths of 21 people as well as an estimated $1 
billion in visible property damage. 
To help Houston and Baton Rouge-area flood victims and businesses, Novato, 
Calif.-based DriveSavers Wednesday is offering a 50 percent discount on its 
data recovery services for computer hard drives damaged by the recent 
flooding and tropical storm. The offer is valid until July 1, 2001. 


Dallas Morning News 6/13/01
Houston groups sustain flood damage
http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/392633_houstonarts_13.html

by Olin Chism
HOUSTON - The weekend's flooding in Houston has soaked the city's cultural 
hub, too, causing severe problems for the city's performing-arts 
organizations. The Wortham Center, Jones Hall and the Alley Theatre in the 
downtown arts district were all badly damaged. 


E&P Online 6/13/01
Bell & Howell becomes Proquest
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/061301n4.htm

Bell & Howell Co., which has been digitizing archives of papers such as The 
New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, restructured last week and 
adopted its new name, ProQuest Co., from its online division. The Ann Arbor, 
Mich.- based company plans to continue expansion of its efforts to digitize 
newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and out-of-print books. 



Asheville Citizen 6/14/01
Detectives secure search warrants for phone records, e-mail
http://www.citizen-times.com/news/09077306.shtml

by Sandy Wall and Quinton Elison
CASHIERS - Investigators want to review e-mail accounts maintained by the 
physical education teacher charged in an alleged sex-for-money scheme at Blue 
Ridge School, and they want access to the telephone records of the K-12 
school's former resource officer.


Wyoming Tribune-Eagle 6/14/01
AG pulls back records change
http://209.181.16.249/wyomingnews/FMPro?-db=news.fp3&-format=detail.htm&-lay=d

etail&-sortfield=sort%5forder&date=06%2f14%2f2001&type=news&display=Y&-max=10&

-recid=38378&-find

by Chris George
CHEYENNE - Almost as soon as a draft bill of proposed changes to the Wyoming 
Public Records Act came to light Wednesday, Gay Woodhouse quashed it.
The attorney general yanked the draft off the table disagreeing with parts of 
it and media representatives reacted angrily to several provisions that 
imported federal law into state statute.



Chicago Tribune 6/14/01
Hospital told to turn over records
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/southwest/article/0,2669,SAV-01061402

77,FF.html

A Cook County judge Wednesday ordered Palos Community Hospital officials to 
turn over within 21 days corporate records sought in the state's 
investigation into whether the hospital bypassed laws in building a fitness 
center in Orland Park. 
The hospital has fought attempts by the Illinois Health Facilities Planning 
Board, which has jurisdiction over hospital capital expenditures, to subpoena 
its corporate records. The hospital appealed a ruling last March that 
confirmed the state board's right to subpoena the records. 



Lexington Herald-Leader 6/14/01
Not all unclaimed property records open
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/061401/statedocs/14OpenRecord

s.htm

by Mark R. Chellgren
AP
FRANKFORT Records of unclaimed property held by the state treasurer that 
identify individuals and the value of their property do not have to be 
publicly disclosed, according to an attorney general's opinion. 
The opinion said records of property or individuals who might have unclaimed 
property held by the state are subject to disclosure. 


Honolulu Star-Bulletin 6/13/01
Panel to subpoena special-ed records
http://starbulletin.com/2001/06/13/news/story1.html

by Richard Borreca
A special House-Senate legislative committee with subpoena powers will start 
an investigation next week into how the state has spent more than $300 
million a year for special education students to comply with the Felix 
consent decree. 


InfoWorld 6/14/01
House leader wants a second investigation of FBI's Carnivore
http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/06/14/010614hncarn.xml?0614thpm

by Jennifer Jones
A POWERFUL HOUSE lawmaker on Thursday asked the FBI to re-examine the extent 
to which its e-mail sniffing tool, Carnivore, infringes on privacy.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey in a letter asked Attorney General John 
Ashcroft to take a look at Carnivore in light of a recent Supreme Court case 
involving privacy and police technology.


Houston Chronicle 6/14/01
Documents bring oil firms' motives into question
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/943157

Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- While the Bush administration cites a lack of refineries for 
energy shortages, internal oil industry documents show that five years ago 
companies were looking for ways to cut refinery output to boost profits. 


Houston Chronicle 6/14/01
Med Center warned on flooding in '99
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory/942864

by Eric Berger
An engineering consultant warned the Texas Medical Center in early 1999 that 
nearby Brays Bayou could barely handle a 10-year-flood event, and that even 
slightly more rain would bring "enormous" devastation to the area. 
In the 2 1/2 years since, Medical Center officials said, they have begun to 
address some of these predicted flooding problems, but the options are 
expensive and could take 10 years or more. 


Houston Chronicle 6/14/01
DNA kills a legend
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/942761

by Patty Reinert
WASHINGTON -- On the day they were going to kill him, Texas outlaw Wild Bill 
Longley, said to have murdered 32 people in his 27 years, dressed in his best 
black suit, pulled on his cowboy boots and pinned a flower to his lapel. He 
joked with the hangman even as he was being strung up. 


Houston Chronicle 6/14/01
Why so much in so many basements?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/storm2001/940426

by Mike Snyder