TDInSight, Volume 2, Number 3, April/May 2005 (open access)

TDInSight, Volume 2, Number 3, April/May 2005

Bimonthly newsletter of the Texas Department of Insurance describing updates, policies, and significant events and topics.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas. Department of Insurance.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Border Business Indicators, Volume 29, Number 4, April 2005 (open access)

Border Business Indicators, Volume 29, Number 4, April 2005

Monthly publication documenting statistics related to economic information in the Mexico-Texas border areas including types of border crossings, employment, customs revenues, and other related data.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Labor Market Review, April 2005 (open access)

Texas Labor Market Review, April 2005

Monthly newsletter documenting statistics related to employment in Texas including nonagricultural job trends, labor force numbers, and other relevant indicators as well as information on related topics.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas Workforce Commission. Labor Market Information.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Target Talk, Number 134, Spring 2005 (open access)

Target Talk, Number 134, Spring 2005

Newsletter of the Texas Hunter Education Program discussing various events, news, and other information related to the program or of interest to hunters in Texas.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 63, Number 4, April 2005 (open access)

Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 63, Number 4, April 2005

Magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comments, April 2005 (open access)

Comments, April 2005

Newsletter of the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority discussing news and updates related to the organization's meetings and activities, changes to regulations, and other relevant information.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, April/May 2005 (open access)

Round Up, April/May 2005

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, April 2005 (open access)

Edwards Aquifer Authority General Manager's Report, April 2005

Monthly newsletter of the general manage at the Edwards Aquifer Authority discussing news and activities of the organization as well as other information related to water in southern Texas.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Edwards Aquifer Authority (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2004 (open access)

Texas Racing Commission Annual Report: 2004

Annual report of the Texas Racing Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2004
Date: April 8, 2005
Creator: Texas Racing Commission
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, April 2005 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, April 2005

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
OncoLog, Volume 50, Number 4, April 2005 (open access)

OncoLog, Volume 50, Number 4, April 2005

Newsletter from the University of Texas System Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute discussing cancer care and research to inform physicians of recent developments in the field.
Date: April 2005
Creator: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 4, April 2005 (open access)

Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 4, April 2005

Monthly travel magazine discussing locations and events in Texas to encourage travel within the state.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia (open access)

Relative Contribution of Produced Water Discharge Oxygen Demand in the Development of Hypoxia

This summary report on anthropogenic coastal hypoxia compares the contribution of organic carbon water discharge from The Mississippi River system with the products of oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Rabalais, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Background, Legal Analysis, and Policy Options (open access)

Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Background, Legal Analysis, and Policy Options

This report provides a summary of U.S. penal policy at the federal level. The report then discusses legislation that created the current federal sentencing structure, the different types of sentencing guidelines, and analyses of departures from the guidelines under the federal system and of possible policy options the 109th Congress may wish to consider if it chooses to address this issue.
Date: April 4, 2005
Creator: Seghetti, Lisa M. & Smith, Alison M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Tax Policy (open access)

Energy Tax Policy

This report discusses the history, current posture, and outlook for federal energy tax policy. It also discusses recent energy tax proposals, focusing on the major energy tax provisions that were debated as part of omnibus energy legislation in the 108th Congress (e.g., H.R. 6), which may be reintroduced in the 109th Congress.
Date: April 22, 2005
Creator: Lazzari, Salvatore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Campaign Finance (open access)

Campaign Finance

This report discusses campaign finance practices and related issues. Concerns over financing federal elections have become a seemingly perennial aspect of our political system, centered on the enduring issues of high campaign costs and reliance on interest groups for needed campaign funds. The report talks about the today's paramount issues such as perceived loopholes in current law and the longstanding issues: overall costs, funding sources, and competition.
Date: April 20, 2005
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress (open access)

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress

This report provides an overview of an omnibus energy legislation (H.R. 6), including revisions made and a history of the legislation.
Date: April 19, 2005
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
EU-U.S. Economic Ties: Framework, Scope, and Magnitude (open access)

EU-U.S. Economic Ties: Framework, Scope, and Magnitude

This report provides background information and analysis of the U.S.-EU economic relationship.
Date: April 15, 2005
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Work: Two Examples (open access)

How the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Work: Two Examples

This report includes a detailed recitation of factual information and of the Guideline and statutory provisions which the officer believes relevant and applicable.
Date: April 4, 2005
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affiliates in Banking, Finance, and Commerce: Development and Regulatory Background (open access)

Affiliates in Banking, Finance, and Commerce: Development and Regulatory Background

The proliferation of corporate affiliates in banking, finance, and commerce has figured in discussion of several policy issues, including how to protect against (1) losses incurred by affiliated companies; (2) anticompetitive “tying” of bank and nonbank financial services; and (3) misuse of financial data of consumers. This report outlines the nature and evolution of affiliates, primarily from a regulatory perspective. It provides background for discussing financial issues involving corporate affiliates.
Date: April 27, 2005
Creator: Jackson, William D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mad Cow Disease: Agricultural Issues for Congress (open access)

Mad Cow Disease: Agricultural Issues for Congress

This report discusses the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) also know as mad cow disease, which is a degenerative, fatal disease affecting the nervous system in cattle. Worldwide, BSE has been found in 187,000 animals, 183,000 of them in Great Britain, where it was first detected in 1986.
Date: April 21, 2005
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Excise Taxes on Tobacco Products: Rates and Revenues (open access)

Federal Excise Taxes on Tobacco Products: Rates and Revenues

This report examines increases in excise tax rates on tobacco products contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33). Under that act, the increased rates on tobacco products became effective in two stages. The first scheduled increase in rates occurred on January 1, 2000, while the second increase in rates occurred two years later on January 1, 2002
Date: April 28, 2005
Creator: Talley, Louis Alan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Overview of the Impeachment Process (open access)

An Overview of the Impeachment Process

The Constitution sets forth the general principles which control the procedural aspects of impeachment, vesting the power to impeach in the House of Representatives, while imbuing the Senate with the power to try impeachments. Both the Senate and the House have designed procedures to implement these general principles in dealing with a wide range of impeachment issues. This report provides a brief overview of the impeachment process, reflecting the roles of both the House and the Senate during the course of an impeachment inquiry and trial.
Date: April 20, 2005
Creator: Halstead, T. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Deepwater Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Deepwater Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the Deepwater program, which is a 20- to 25-year acquisition effort to replace or modernize 93 aging Coast Guard ships and 207 aging Coast Guard aircraft. The program’s estimated total acquisition cost is $19 billion to $24 billion. On March 25, 2005 the Coast Guard submitted to Congress a revised implementation plan for the program that alters the planned capabilities and numbers of Deepwater assets and the schedule for acquiring or modernizing them. Some Members of Congress have criticized the revised implementation plan. The Coast Guard’s proposed FY2006 budget requests $966 million for the program.
Date: April 1, 2005
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library