Top government iPhone apps.

Check out this great article on the best government apps to put on your iPhone. They include a TSA app, an app for USA.gov as well as an app for searching for federal jobs.

Looking for a free and powerful tool for banking and financial information?

Look no further than the FDIC Bank Data Guide.

The FDIC provides a wealth of information from everything to numbers of banks to the banks' holdings themselves and offers many tutorials on how best to navigate its databases.

Check it out!

Business Opportunity Fraud

Check out a short informative video put together by the FTC about scammers selling bogus business opportunities. See the video here.

Fun facts from the Census.

Want to see some entertaining information put together by the U.S. Census Bureau? Sometimes Census data can be hard to understand or dry, but these collections of facts will show you some interesting information about American life.

Check it out here.

Check out an eclectic collection of government documents in PDF format at Rummaging in the Government's Attic here.

An in-depth look at oil spills.

Check out the new electronic government document, Resources on Oil Spills, Response, and Restoration: a Selected Bibliography. Long but informative! See it here.

Check out Thomas on your mobile device!

The legislative website thomas.gov has been optimized for use on your iPhone, Droid, Blackberry or other smartphone. It now displays easily on your mobile-sized screen. Give it a try!

Library of Congress releases over 1600 color photos taken during the Great Depression.

Check out the gallery here.

The Washoe County 2010 Street Atlas is online!

Check it out here.

Everything you wanted to know about historical Reno weather...

...has been published by the government. Check out the document here.

Nevada Taxpayer's Association

Check out this informative website here. Of special note are their publications which you must buy from them in print format but that are available for free in PDFs on the website. These include Tax Topics and Nevada Issues. The publications are readable, in-depth and Nevada-specific.

Notable government document at your library.

Check out the blog post on The Sun, The Earth, and Near-Earth Space. This government document was highlighted by Library Journal in 2009 and is owned by the Washoe County Library system.

Library Journal writes about the year's notable government documents.

From the article: "This year's list of Notable Government Documents includes titles on history, government policy, mental and physical health, biology, global warming, and environmental protection, among other topics. The historical works, which comprise nearly one-third of the panel's selections, focus mainly on cultural phenomena, such as architecture and music. While some of the selected works exist only on the Internet or in print, most have both electronic and tangible versions."

Check it out here.

Need help finding government information?

Try Government Information Online: Ask a Librarian. Check it out here.

" Through Government Information Online (GIO) you can ask government information librarians who are experts at finding information from government agencies of all levels (local, state, regional, national international) on almost any subject from aardvarks to zygomycosis."

New Public Printer Being Nominated

Check out the press release here.

Didn't get your Census form?


Beginning April 12, 2010, you should call the Telephone Questionnaire
Assistance center at one of the numbers listed below to obtain a
questionnaire. The phone lines will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (your
local time) seven days a week through July 30, 2010.

* English 1-866-872-6868
* Spanish 1-866-928-2010
* Chinese 1-866-935-2010
* Korean 1-866-955-2010
* Vietnamese 1-866-945-2010
* Russian 1-866-965-2010

For the hearing-impaired, dial TDD 1-866-783-2010 (during the times
noted above.)

Have questions about the new health care legislation?

Click here for the text of the legislation as well as discussion of it in the Congressional Record. See a break-down of votes here too.

C-Span archives available online

Check out the New York Times article about C-Span's archives here.

Check out the archives here.

A new, easier way to search the Federal Register.

Check out govpulse.us. It's "a fast, easy-to-use, open-source interface to the Federal Register. In addition to the features provided by Regulations.gov, GovPulse.us provides a variety of visualizations by topic and agency. Further, GovPulse.us is location-aware, making it possible to easily find articles that mention areas that interest you. Citations in the full text are analyzed and hyperlinked, so for any given topic or agency
you can see the most cited articles, or for any article see at a glance everything that cites it. Powerful search functionality allows you to drill down to what you're interested in--and then subscribe to the
results via RSS."

Nevada Legislature Special Session

Here's the link for bill tracking though the legislature's special session.

Government applications for your iPhone

This website suggests some government apps for your iPhone if you've got one!

Check it out!

The Economic Report of the President, 2010 is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. It is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers and transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government.

The Economic Report of the President includes:

1. Current and foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income, and Federal budget outlays;

2. Employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force;

3. Annual numeric goals;

4. And a program for carrying out program objectives.

Also included is the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Each year, the Council of Economic Advisers submits this report on its activities during the previous calendar year in accordance with the requirements of Congress as set forth in section 10(d) of the Employment Act of 1946 as amended by the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

The Economic Report of the President is available from GPO's Federal Digital System at: http://fdsys.gpo.gov. Documents are available in ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Obama issues order on document classification.

"...the new Order adopts a number of additional changes in standards, procedures, and deadlines designed to promote greater openness and transparency in the Federal Government’s classification and declassification programs. "