[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 10, 2013 to December 19, 2013.
Date: 2013-01-10/2013-12-19
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Texas Response to Federal Sequestration (open access)

Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Texas Response to Federal Sequestration

Report from the Texas House Committee on Texas Response to Federal Sequestration describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 83rd Texas Legislature.
Date: January 18, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Texas Response to Federal Sequestration.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Views of the January 24, 2013 meeting

Webpage from McKinney TXSSAR website containing a flyer and photographs from a January 24, 2013 meeting.
Date: January 24, 2013
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age (open access)

Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age

The conference report to the 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act mandated that the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) conduct a broad operational review of GPO to (1) update past studies of GPO operations; (2) examine the feasibility of GPO continuing to perform executive branch printing; and (3) identify additional cost saving operational alternatives beyond those that GPO has already implemented.The Academy formed a five-member Panel of Fellows to conduct a ten-month study of the agency’s current role, its operations, and its future direction. The Panel determined that the federal government in the digital age must continue to ensure that the public has permanent access to authentic government information and that GPO has a critical role to play in meeting this need. GPO leaders have made significant progress in “rebooting” the agency from a print-centric to a content-centric focus, but the agency needs to make further business and operational changes. The Panel issued fifteen recommendations intended to position the federal government for the digital age, strengthen GPO’s business model, and further GPO’s continuing transformation. Among other things, the Panel recommended that Congress establish an inter-agency process to develop a government-wide strategy for managing the life-cycle of digital government information; GPO …
Date: January 2013
Creator: National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism (open access)

Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism

Report from the Texas House Committee on Culture, Recreation, & Tourism describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 83rd Texas Legislature.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The GV Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 2013 (open access)

The GV Tribune (Grandview, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 4, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Grandview, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 4, 2013
Creator: Roberts, Janeen
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 311, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 311, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 15, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Fully Implement Major Initiatives to Save Billions of Dollars (open access)

Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Fully Implement Major Initiatives to Save Billions of Dollars

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO has issued a number of key reports on the federal government's efforts to efficiently acquire and operate information technology (IT) investments and found that if major initiatives are fully implemented, billions of dollars in savings could be realized. In particular, GAO has made recommendations regarding the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) public website, known as the IT Dashboard, which provides detailed information on federal agencies' major IT investments; agencies' efforts to perform analyses on existing IT investments; and agencies' progress toward consolidating data centers."
Date: January 22, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework (open access)

The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework

This report provides an overview of the relationship between executive and legislative authority over national security information, and summarizes the current laws that form the legal framework protecting classified information, including current executive orders and some agency regulations pertaining to the handling of unauthorized disclosures of classified information by government officers and employees. The report also summarizes criminal laws that pertain specifically to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, as well as civil and administrative penalties. Finally, the report describes some recent developments in executive branch security policies and relevant legislative activity.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 01, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 2, 2013 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 01, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 2, 2013
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Legislative Lexicon (open access)

Legislative Lexicon

Guide to specialized vocabulary used in the Texas Legislature, organized alphabetically. It also includes a list of acronyms, senate vote requirements, a flowchart of steps in the legislative process, a directory of officers and relevant offices, and important legislative dates.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
State of the Fleet 2013: Report on the Status and Operation of Vehicles within the State of Texas (open access)

State of the Fleet 2013: Report on the Status and Operation of Vehicles within the State of Texas

Report on the administration and management of the Texas State Vehicle Fleet Management Plan.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 2013 (open access)

Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2013
Creator: Pena, Hilda
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Presidential Appointments to Full-Time Positions in Independent and Other Agencies During the 111th Congress (open access)

Presidential Appointments to Full-Time Positions in Independent and Other Agencies During the 111th Congress

This report explains the process for filling positions to which the President makes appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate (also referred to as PAS positions). It also identifies, for the 111th Congress, all nominations to full-time positions requiring Senate confirmation in 40 organizations in the executive branch (27 independent agencies, 6 agencies in the Executive Office of the President (EOP), and 7 multilateral organizations) and 4 agencies in the legislative branch. It excludes appointments to executive departments and to regulatory and other boards and commissions, which are covered in other reports.
Date: January 22, 2013
Creator: Carey, Maeve P.; Greene, Michael W. & Bearden, Maureen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Technology (open access)

Interim Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: House Committee on Technology

Report from the Texas House Committee on Technology describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 83rd Texas Legislature.
Date: January 4, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Technology.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Outrageous Oral (open access)

Outrageous Oral

A program from the Dallas Way presentation of their history project which focused on LGBT history.
Date: January 17, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications (open access)

Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications

This report provides historical background on the enactment of declarations of war and authorizations for the use of force and analyzes their legal effects under international and domestic law. It also sets forth their texts in two appendices. The report includes an extensive listing and summary of statutes that are triggered by a declaration of war, a declaration of national emergency, and/or the existence of a state of war. The report concludes with a summary of the congressional procedures applicable to the enactment of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of force and to measures under the War Powers Resolution.
Date: January 11, 2013
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K. & Weed, Matthew C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 66, No. 5, Ed. 1, January 2013 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 66, No. 5, Ed. 1, January 2013

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 8, 2013 (open access)

The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 8, 2013
Creator: Todaro, Nick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (open access)

The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Daily newspaper from Ennis, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 15, 2013
Creator: Todaro, Nick
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities

This report discusses the federal government's role in the country's information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) activities. The government's support of IT R&D began because it had an important interest in creating computers and software that would be capable of addressing the problems and issues the government needed to solve and study.
Date: January 30, 2013
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2012-2013 (open access)

The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2012-2013

Publication of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, containing news and events related to the organization and its members.
Date: January 25, 2013
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 2013 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 9, 2013
Creator: McCracken, Michael S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highways, Volume 60, Number 1, January 2013 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 60, Number 1, January 2013

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History