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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/11 Part 2



There are 11 stories in this posting.


Financial Times 01/10/02
Destroyed documents raise concerns over Andersen
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT39MGE6BWC&live=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZUGORQ00C&tagid=ZZZAU2EX70C&subheading=us

by Adrian Michaels in New York and Peter Spiegel in Washington
Andersen could not rule out on Thursday that some of the Enron documents that it destroyed were lost after it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission.



Reuters 01/10/02
Andersen: staff destroyed Enron documents
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/headlines/financial/20020110/403492.html

by Deepa Babington
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andersen said on Thursday its employees destroyed a number of documents related to its audit of energy trader Enron Corp. , in a disclosure that experts said further clouded the outlook for the blue-chip accounting firm.



Houston Chronicle 01/11/02
Auditor: Employees destroyed many records
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/enron/1207256

by Laura Goldberg
Andersen, Enron Corp.'s auditor, said Thursday its employees destroyed "a significant but undetermined number" of electronic and paper documents in recent months relating to work it did for the Houston-based company.



Associated Press 01/11/02
Court panel poised to abolish limited public access plan
http://cold.jrnl.com/cfdocs/new/stories/pgfp0111200210.htm

ANNAPOLIS - A committee appointed by the Maryland Court of Appeals is poised to abolish a plan to strictly limit public access to state court records.
Members of the Committee on Access to Court Records plan to vote within two weeks on abolishing the plan, which was drafted by five court officials and an assistant state attorney general.



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 01/12/02
Judge signals doubts on board inquiry
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jan02/11930.asp

by Dennis Chaptman
Madison - State Ethics Board records show that the agency did not conduct an investigation into allegations of illegal campaigning by legislative caucus staff, a Dane County judge said Friday.
After privately examining two boxes of records provided by the board this week, Circuit Judge John Albert came close to ordering the documents open for public inspection.



Baltimore Sun 01/09/02
Panel urges access to public data
http://www.sunspot.net/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=bal%2Dar%2Eaccess09jan09

by Andrea F. Siegel
Reversing a proposal that would have restricted access to court files, a judicial advisory panel has drafted a plan to keep the records open to the public - while urging officials to plan for a future when more records are available by computer from remote locations.



Christian Science Monitor 01/11/02
Preserving rare and raw early rural recordings
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0111/p18s2-almp.html

by Lynne Margolis
PITTSBURGH - The Beale Street Visitors Center in Memphis, Tenn., sells a T-shirt that reads: "No black. No white. Just blues."
It's a sentiment Richard Nevins, owner of the Yazoo record label, might appreciate. The New Jersey native with an obsession for the early music of America's mountains, valleys, and backwoods says he believes those bygone sounds shouldn't be divided along racial lines.



New York Times 01/11/02
The irradiation of mail can also zap the contents
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/business/11MAIL.html

by John Schwartz
Attempts by the United States Postal Service to make mail safer by zapping it with radiation have hit a snag: the process tends to destroy computer chips and to damage other delicate items including food, pharmaceuticals, clothing, contact lenses - and even the paper mail itself.



Salt Lake Tribune 01/10/02
Leavitt e-mail suit threatened
http://www.sltrib.com/2002/Jan/01102002/utah/166244.htm

by Greg Burton
Four news media outlets have threatened to sue Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt unless he alters his practice of systematically destroying e-mails, many presumably containing a record of "the governmental present and historical past," attorneys for the outlets contend.



The Times 01/11/02
Andersen admits it destroyed Enron records
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,5-2002019113,00.html

from Chris Ayres in New York
ANDERSEN, the accountancy firm, yesterday said that it had destroyed a "significant but undetermined" number of documents related to its auditing work for Enron, the Texas energy company that made the world's biggest bankruptcy filing last year.



Daytona Beach News-Journal 01/11/02
Vegas marriage  licenses say 'I do' to computer age
http://www.news-journalonline.com/2002/Jan/11/NOTE1.htm

LAS VEGAS -- The Clark County Marriage License Bureau has said "I do" to a new computer system that will speed up the licensing process and provide colorful and more professional marriage certificates.
What's more, that trip down the aisle won't be quite as long, thanks to shorter lines and faster data processing.




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