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RAIN: Weekly Update 12/29



There are 8 stories in this posting.

Boston Globe 12/29/01
Red Sox turn over sale documents to state Attorney General
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/363/region/Red_Sox_turn_over_sale_documen:.shtml

AP
BOSTON (AP) The Boston Red Sox on Friday began turning over documents detailing bids made for the team to state Attorney General Tom Reilly.
The move reverses earlier refusals to share the documents with Reilly, who is looking into whether the Jean R. Yawkey Trust, the team's outgoing majority owner, shortchanged charities slated to benefit from the team's sale by approving a lower bid.



Durango Herald 12/29/01
Water district asks court to toss records request
http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/news011229_4.htm

by Bob Schober
The Southwestern Water Conservation District has asked the District Court in Durango to throw out an open records request filed by a grassroots group opposed to the Animas-La Plata Project.
In response, Citizens Progressive Alliance, a nonprofit A-LP watchdog group based in Colorado and northwest New Mexico, filed a motion to quash the lawsuit on Dec. 17. On Friday, the group filed a petition with the court asking it to dismiss the lawsuit and order the district to immediately produce the documents.



www,CRMDaily.com 12/28/01
New online 'vault' secures med records
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20011228/tc/15532_1.html

by Kimberly Hill
While companies have begun distributing many types of customer records via Web self-service tools, dissemination of medical records has lagged. For obvious reasons -- confidentiality and privacy -- medical information is more difficult to handle.
To address some concerns of both patients and physicians, The Axess Group has announced a service called "Health Vault" that offers secure access and management of online medical records. This announcement follows the company's release earlier this month of its proprietary "nVault" system, designed to distribute art, film and music content, and other intellectual property.



Biloxi Sun-Herald 12/29/01
Many sheriffs don't follow records law
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/12/29/local_news/it_1229_foi_access.htm

by Deborah Bulkeley
AP
JACKSON - When it comes to the public's right to know, a statewide survey suggests a number of Mississippi sheriffs' departments are either ignorant of the law or have chosen to ignore it.
Of the 36 counties covered in a survey organized by The Associated Press and carried out by volunteers, fewer than half the sheriffs fully complied when asked to see their jail dockets and an arrest record, both public under a 1983 state law. A jail docket is a record of each warrant by which a person is placed in jail.



Biloxi Sun-Herald 12/29/01
Records chase at a glance
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/12/29/local_news/it_1229_foi_glance.htm

Volunteers went to Mississippi sheriffs' departments in 40 counties and asked to see the county's jail docket and arrest report for the first person on the docket. Both documents are public information under the Mississippi Public Records Act. Four counties were excluded because of problems with the way information was gathered.



Biloxi Sun-Herald 12/29/01
Young reporters stonewalled
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/12/29/local_news/it_1229_foi_students.htm

by Jason Straziuso
AP
JACKSON - Two student journalists catch the hint of a good story; a possible cover-up dances just beyond grasp.
But the student reporters are young, have no publication to back them up and are refused the information they seek.
University of Mississippi juniors Elizabeth Oakes and Will Bardwell, journalism majors who took an advanced reporting class last fall, have been covering the murder of William Bramlett, who was shot and killed by Leonard Jasper Young.



Dallas Morning News 12/29/01
PUC papers shared
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.eb106eb1ac.b0.af.0.a4.d31c9.html

by Pete Slover
AUSTIN - Documents released by Gov. Rick Perry's office Friday show that his lawyer approved the June appointment of a former Enron executive to chair the Public Utility Commission, after the chief appointments official framed the matter as a "how can we make this work" issue.
A spokesman for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Sanchez continued a drumbeat of criticism aimed at the GOP governor's appointment of Max Yzaguirre, saying the newly released documents reveal an approve-at-all-costs mindset.



New York Times 12/29/01
The story of Islam's gift of paper to the West
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/arts/design/29SHEL.html

by Holland Cotter
The paper on which these words were originally printed comes to you courtesy of Islamic civilization. Not directly, of course. Paper was invented in China around the first century. But it was Muslim merchants traveling the Silk Road in the eighth century who first brought the light, thin, pliable stuff west. And it was through Islamic culture in North Africa that paper arrived in medieval Europe, where it took on an explosive life.





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