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RAIN 8/12: Weekend Update Part 4"We basically do not know what's in these boxes,



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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/12/01
History in decay: how the city and county are neglecting our heritage
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010812archives0812p3.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
A large chunk of Allegheny County's history is rotting away in an old Serta
mattress factory on the North Side.
More than a million pounds of records, packed in 50,000 numbered boxes, are
stacked on aisle after aisle of shelves, where they sizzle in the humid
summer heat.
Sweat pours down the brow of Sam Wilson as he leads a tour on a miserably hot
day recently.
"We basically do not know what's in these boxes, and we don't care," said the
county's deputy director of administrative services as he walked the
building's fourth floor.


Indianapolis Star 8/11/01
Suit over IU's Knight records on hold
http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/iusuit11.html

by George Stuteville
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A judge put on hold Friday an attempt by Indiana
University lawyers to dismiss an Indianapolis Star lawsuit that would force
the university to release all of its records related to the firing of
basketball coach Bob Knight.
During a lengthy hearing -- much of which occurred behind closed doors in a
special session -- Special Judge Jane Spencer Craney agreed to read some of
those documents and rule later about whether other material should be
released.



Ottawa Citizen 8/11/01
House leader slams Access Act overhaul
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010811/5074613.html

by Jen Ross
Government House leader Don Boudria warned fellow Liberal MP John Bryden
yesterday that any review of the Access to Information Act undertaken by Mr.
Bryden's ad hoc committee would be "incomplete and unsatisfactory."



New York Times 8/11/01
8 Officers are charged in Osprey falsification
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/11/national/11OSPR.html

AP
Washington, Aug. 10 -- Eight Marine officers accused of falsifying
maintenance records on the troubled Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft have been
charged with violating military law, officials said today.
The eight have been ordered to appear at an administrative hearing to answer
the charges, said Maj. Bryan Salas, a Marine Corps spokesman. Each of the
eight has a right to refuse the administrative hearing and request a
court-martial instead.



Boston Globe 8/12/01
Documentation fees drive car buyers to aggravation
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/224/business/Documentation_fees_drive_car_bu

yers_to_aggravation+.shtml

by Bruce Mohl
The paperwork involved in buying a car is getting more and more expensive for
the car buyer.
Document preparation fees vary dramatically from dealership to dealership,
with charges bumping up against $200 and in some cases going well beyond
that. Riverside Sales & Leasing of Auburn charges $249, according to a
Registry of Motor Vehicles survey.




Charlotte Observer 8/12/01
Public Records
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/sspencer0811.htm

by Stewart Spencer
My parents taught me that grabbing the last word in conversation is rude. I
must ask their forgiveness, and that of County Commissioner Tom Cox. I want
to append a few comments to some thoughts he's shared with me and others.
Here's the question: When are government officials' e-mail messages public
records? It comes up because of an Observer request to see commissioners'
e-mail in a courthouse controversy.



Fayetteville Observer 8/12/01
Rand wants public hospital records to be made public
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/obj_stories/2001/aug/n12legx.shtml

by Paul Wolverton
RALEIGH -- State Sen. Tony Rand plans to revive legislation that would make
secret certain hospital records that have been available to the public.
The proposed law would apply to publicly owned hospitals such as Cumberland
County's Cape Fear Valley Health System, Bladen County Hospital in
Elizabethtown, Sampson Regional Medical Center in Clinton and Columbus County
Hospital in Whiteville.



New York Times 8/12/01
Credit cards with chips have little use in U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/business/12CARD.html

by Sally Hansell
Suddenly, smart cards - credit cards embedded with tiny computer chips - are
everywhere. American Express (news/quote) put a chip on its sparkly new Blue
card, and issued 2.2 million of them in just 14 months. Rushing to mimic
Blue's success, Visa says at least four of its banks will issue seven million
credit cards with chips on them this year. And MasterCard says it is getting
into the smart card business, too.



The Oklahoman 8/12/01
Law allows public access to juvenile records
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=734821&TP=getarticle

by Mick Hinton
Forty-two states permit the release of the names of juveniles who get caught
in the justice system, records from the National Center for Juvenile Justice
show, but the extent of the information varies greatly.
It appears that Oklahoma's requirement that arrest records of youths picked
up on crimes be public is not the norm, although there has been a trend of
states opening up court proceedings involving juveniles.



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/12/01
Ohio's lost history
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010812gone0812p4.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
As Gov. James A. Rhodes prepared to leave office in Ohio in November 1982,
staff members placed 79 cases of his records on a loading dock.
The records were headed for a trip across the streets of Columbus to the Ohio
Historical Society.



Star-Tribune 8/12/01
Report: State employees compiled voter lists for partisan campaigns
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84713929

AP
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Legislative employees have spent hundreds of hours each
year compiling, from their state offices, voter lists for political parties
and candidates, the Wisconsin State Journal said Sunday.
The newspaper quoted sources it described as being familiar with the
operations as saying the work includes collecting lists of voters from
municipalities around the state and typing them into computers.



The Columbus Dispatch 8/12/01
Outhouse artifacts don't go to waste
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news01/aug01/798845

.html

by Steve Stephens
Sometimes a history buff has to dig where a history buff has to dig.
Mark Froehlich, a Franklin County municipal judge, became privy to that fact
about five years ago when he and a group of ardent outhouse diggers unearthed
100 years of history in the back yard of his Groveport home.
The collectible items Froehlich found are now on display at the Groveport
Town Hall, which serves as an art gallery and the village's community center.



Ashland Daily Press 8/12/01
Ground-breaking held for Bayfield Heritage Association center
http://www.ashlandwi.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=4&story_id=80549&refer_url
=

by Barbara Brown Meredith
BAYFIELD -- Boasting proud smiles and toting gold-plated shovels, members of
the Bayfield Heritage Association (BHA) participated in a ground breaking
ceremony last week for the construction of the new Bayfield Heritage Center
Historical Museum & Research Facility. It was an event which culminated two
decades of planning by the BHA towards the creation of Bayfield's first
all-inclusive history center.



Dallas Morning News 8/12/01
Texas taps into bullet database
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/442277_bullets_12met..html

by Todd Bensman
Two masked men burst through the door of an Oak Cliff townhouse and, with a
MAC-90 semiautomatic assault rifle, prodded Paul Herford Jr. outside. One of
the men killed the 22-year-old before escaping with $75.
Four more young Dallas men would die during the same year, 1997, in shootings
that seemed unrelated - until a computer analysis told police that the same
gun had been used in all the crimes.



The Morning Journal 8/12/01
Unraveling the secrets of family trees
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2210072&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=463

71&rfi=6

by Philip Van Teuren
VERMILION -- It's not hard to find someone to whom family is an important
thing; Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa are a big part of most of our lives, but
in many cases the knowledge of our ancestors is lacking.
Some inquiring people out there, though, aren't satisfied with being familiar
with only a few previous generations. Their quest is to explore the histories
of the people whose hearts and minds and genes combined to make them.
Sue Strick, president of the Lorain County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical
Society, is one of these people.



Pueblo Chieftain 8/12/01
Privacy advocates want to give consumers voice on sale of personal data
http://www.chieftain.com/sunday/news/index/article/3

by David Phinney
WASHINGTON - Getting a lot of junk mail? It could be because of your credit
card.
That nifty little bit of plastic may offer convenience at the shopping mall,
but it also can be a nuisance because it helps credit card companies collect
handy demographic data about who you are and what you spend your money on.







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

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