Freedom of Information Act


Data On Contracts

Regarding the Freedom of Information Act (National Affairs, June), your readers may have encountered another problem with this most complex arena -- the i...  Read story

Washington Is Telling Secrets

And some of those secrets are your competitors'. The Freedom of Information Act gives you access to information that can help your business.  Read story

How Much Freedom Is Too Much?

The Reagan Administration thinks that the Freedom of Information Act is harmful to business and national security. But some small companies say it helps them...  Read story

New Website Tracks Worker Injuries

An AFL-CIO affiliate has posted data on 60,000 companies online.  Read story

What's Next: They've Got Your Number

Identity theft using a combination of computer technology and government information is a major crime just waiting to happen.  Read story

How To Save A Few Billion Dollars

Defense bureaucrats could save that much by contracting with smaller companies.  Read story

Trading Places: How a Dentist Invented the Export Trading Company

Although Dr. Josepb Blaes considered himself reasonably imaginative, he never dreamed that his design for a more efficient dental clinic would have global si...  Read story

Public Access to Contracting Data Disputed

The SBA and the ASBL go head-to-head on the public availability of federal contracting data.  Read story

(still) Unsafe At Any Speed

Ralph Nader, the man who killed the Corvair, is now organizing buyers' collaboratives to make big-volume purchases from fuel dealers, and spotting the consum...  Read story

The Work-at-Home Diaries

Offers show up every day in your E-mailbox promising that you can escape your straitjacketing day job and make plenty of money working from home. Could it be...  Read story

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