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Water lily in Lake Zither, Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland Oregon, 26 July 2016. Greetings from Portland, Oregon and the 2017 annual mee...

A couple of days ago, the New York Times published an article by David Halbfinger that highlights major problems with a City of New York i...

Local, state, and federal governments are increasingly using social media to convey important information and to solicit feedback from citiz...

Apologies for the virtually non-existent posting during the past few weeks. I've spent three of the past four weeks attending to family...

Forged Canadian passport used by James Earl Ray, who was apprehended at Heathrow Airport in London on June 8, 1968 and extradited shortly af...

Last week, the Chief Information Officer of the United States released the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy , which outlines how the federal...

Last week, the Boston Phoenix published an article by Chris Faraone highlighting how local, state, and federal governments are struggling ...

One of the benefits of blogging is its real-time nature: stuff happens, and posts follow almost almost immediately afterward. One of the d...

Today was the first day of Documenting Leadership: A Symposium on Public Executive Records in the 21st Century . About 100 journalists, cur...

The New York State Capitol, as seen from the Empire State Plaza, 24 November 2008. If you have a personal or professional interest in ensuri...

Do you have a personal or professional interest in ensuring that the official records of presidents, governors, attorneys general, mayors, a...

The New York State Office of the Chief Information Officer/Office for Technology and the New York State Archives are hosting an: OPEN GOVE...

Austin's Congress Street Bridge, which spans Lady Bird Lake, is home to the nation's largest urban bat colony. During the summer mo...

On the eve of the 4th, here are a couple of examples of the heady new opportunities and horrific challenges that governments face in the dig...

This month, OutHistory.org features a new online exhibit that was made possible by the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). T...

Last year, the New York State Archives co-sponsored a series of electronic records symposia that highlighted how local governments and stat...

Unalaska is a fishing community of approximately 4,000 situated on one of the Aleutian islands. It's not a glamorous place, and it does...