Yesterday, after the House defeated the economic "bailout" bill, citizens swamped their representatives with e-mail and attempted to reach web sites hosted by house.gov to get more information. The result? "Millions of individuals seeking information about the forsaken legislation have slowed its 10 servers to a crawl." (Servers buckle as Congress rejects $700bn Wall Street bailout By Austin Modine, The Register, 9/30/2008.)

The response? House limits constituent e-mails to prevent crash, By Jordy Yager, The Hill, 09/30/08

September's gone already? Well, brief as the month was, I want to say I've really enjoyed being September's Blogger of the Month. Posting here and watching new stories come up daily has been a real treat. My thanks to the FGI folks for giving me a great venue for posting thoughts and finds! And in that spirit, here's a little mish-mash of what I've been reading the past two days.

I find it pretty telling (in a geeky way) of where the nation's attention lies, that I'm getting timeout errors in so many areas related to the Economic Stimulus Bill and the general financial hoopla. This morning, I couldn't get to related articles on Wikipedia.

Yesterday GovTrack.us posted a high-traffic-volume message to the effect of, "we'll be back when everyone chills out." Today, they've posted the Economic Stimulus Bill details at the top of the page, with a note stating, "We'll have more info here as soon as it's posted on the government website THOMAS, maybe tomorrow. If that's not fast enough, tell your representative that the Library of Congress needs the funding and a mandate to enter the 21st century for legislative information." Indeed.

And now for something completely different! I've been looking through Resource Shelf's GovDocs category lately, and made several interesting finds, including Statescape (fee-based, but includes lots of free state gov info) and an overview of the new features on Science.gov.

And in a follow-up to the earlier government Twitter posts, here are a few more feeds I'm following:

• House Floor
• Senate Floor
• USA.gov's GovGab

And a Happy Autumn to you all!

Here is an excellent example of why we need government information distributed in truly-open, re-usable formats.

The very important and much discussed $700 billion economic "bail-out" bill, the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" (H.R. 3997), has gone through at least four versions between September 25th and today.

Josh Tauberer, the tireless open-government advocate and programmer who developed GovTrack.us, has adapted a bill comparison tool that he developed for GovTrack and posted the resulting analysis of changes between the different versions here:

• Special Feature: Economic Stimulus Bill Text Tracker, GovTrack. Sept 29, 2008.

Josh says that he had to use the PDF versions of these documents because that it all that is publicly available. He goes on to identify the problem of relying on PDF documents for re-use:

It's not very pretty because while House bill writers have been posting the PDFs, PDFs don't make it easy to make comparisons. They *are* composing the bills in XML, and if they made those available we the public would have an easier time. Maybe we wouldn't complain to our reps so much either because we could actually understand what is going on better! [source]

...Why is this so ugly? This is based on converting the PDF drafts into text, which doesn't always work right. If you think the public should be able to do this better, tell your representative to support The Open House Project report recommendations. [source]

What we need is not just easy-to-read human-consumable documents (e.g., PDF, HTML, word-processing documents), but also machine-processable documents that can be analyzed, parsed, re-formatted, and re-used (e.g., XML).

An Investigation into the Removal of Nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006, U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility, Sept. 2008. (PDF, 392 pp., 3.6 Megs).

Site http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/new.htm says "HTML coming soon."

From the conclusion:

The most serious allegations that arose were that the U.S. Attorneys were removed based on improper political factors, including to affect the way they handled certain voter fraud or public corruption investigations and prosecutions. Our investigation found significant evidence that political partisan considerations were an important factor in the removal of several of the U.S. Attorneys. The most troubling example was David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico. We concluded that complaints from New Mexico Republican politicians and party activists about Iglesias’s handling of voter fraud and public corruption cases caused his removal, and that the Department removed Iglesias without any inquiry into his handling of the cases.

However, we were unable to fully develop the facts regarding the removal of Iglesias and several other U.S. Attorneys because of the refusal by certain key witnesses to be interviewed by us, as well as by the White House’s decision not to provide internal White House documents to us. Therefore, we recommend that counsel specially appointed by the Attorney General work with us to conduct further investigation and ultimately to determine whether the totality of the evidence demonstrates that any criminal offense was committed.

Last week, at the Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference held at MIT, there was a panel on electronic voting systems in which CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen participated -- along with Moderator Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief, Technology Review; Doug Chapin, Director, electionline.org; Ronald L. Rivest, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT; and Pamela Smith, President, Verified Voting Foundation. You may remember that in 2007, Bowen ordered a complete top-to-bottom review of voting systems in CA. I'm really glad to see a top-level politician sitting on a panel of cutting edge technologists and really, really glad to hear that top-level politician advocate for Open-source software.

Now, I'm not saying the open source is the end all and be all solution to the myriad issues facing e-voting (see Bev harris' Black Box Voting for more on those issues); but it's great to see that Bowen at least gets that open source software is at least part of the solution. We've been saying that for quite some time. For a complete wrapup of the panel see Lucas Mearian's ComputerWorld blog

One method of addressing software issues associated with the vast majority of proprietary e-voting applications out there is to move to using open source, especially for applications residing on optical scanners, which have been particularly troublesom. The concern is that IT administrators can't look at the software to correct errors or tweak it for a particular county's needs. Open source would go a long ways to disclosing problems associated with today's propretary e-voting applications, Bowen said.

[Thanks /.]

I had a pretty humble beginning in government documents. In June 1993, I began work as a documents clerk at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). UTSA was enlightened enough to send a paraprofessional to the local government documents users group. It was there that I first met Kathy Amen, the author of today's ALA GODORT Handout Exchange guide and someone I consider to be both a mentor and friend even though we don't keep in great touch.

Kathy's Guide:

Government Information in the Study of History (Kathy Amen, St. Mary's University, 2003)

makes it's purpose clear with this intro statement:

This set of guides has 2 purposes:

* to identify historically significant materials in the Blume Library documents collection, housed on the main floor of the Library
* to provide convenient access to government (and related) web sites of interest to the historian and history students

Therefore, each of the guide's sections is subdivided into

* annotated listings of the Library's print holdings (with online versions noted if they are available)
* major web-based resources
* references to relevant links in our Government Information on the Web Subject Index, as an aid to finding more detailed online information.

Those guide sections would be: General, Archaeology, Archives, Area Studies, Biography, Institutions, Military, Places, Science/Technology, Social/Labor, and Sources. In addition to browsing these pages, a search is available.

Some of the many resources that Kathy identifies in the area of history are:

• Honor Bound: The History of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973 (D 1.2:H 75/3). This volume draws upon research in official records, published literature and interviews with former POW's to chart the history of those taken prisoner during the Vietnam conflict.
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record. This collection, part of the Library of Congress' American Memory project, "document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies." The website includes drawings, photographs, narrative descriptions, etc. You may search by keyword or browse by subject or location.
• Bibliography of the History of Medicine. (HE 20.3615:). Annual. 1964-1993. Covers articles, monographs, and conference proceedings world-wide. One section contains references to biographical information on the medical histories of famous persons, medical aspects of artistic works, and biographies of those in health related professions. A second section indexes references by subject, subdivided, where appropriate, by geographical or chronological headings. There is a detailed contents list of subject headings which includes cross references.
• Famous American Trials. Many, though not all, of the trials covered on this site developed by a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City were held in the U.S. Information given includes links to official documents, background and analytical studies, contemporary and later reactions, maps, photographs and other illustrations as relevant.
• Guide to the Research Collections of Former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-1987. ( Y 1.1/2:13872). Identifies repositories of papers, oral history tapes and tape transcripts.

Check out the rest of the guide. I know I say this in every entry, but it is particularly true here. Kathy's guide is extensive and has many subtopics, so you really need to browse it awhile to get a sense of what's available.

Once you're done, take a break. Then see what other topics are available. And if you are a documents librarian with a guide, please add your guide to the wiki!

Kovacs Consulting, which holds online training for librarians, also surveys librarians' core reference tools in a variety of subject areas. And yes, there is a Government Documents section! You can contribute to the current survey or take a look at the 2005 and 2006 results.

What a great way to find some new resources, and see what everyone else is using! I also plan on using the list as I train a graduate student on our reference desk.

You can tell we're coming down the home stretch of the 2008 presidential election as we're being bombarded with ads, and more information than we can read even if we'd aced the Evelyn Wood Speed reading course! Luckily, there are more and more sites popping up to help us sift through those info-mountains. A couple of weeks ago, we posted about some mapping tools based on publicly available polling data.

now, VoterWatch has released the 2008 Presidential Debates Project. On September 26, the night of the first Presidential debate, Dick Morris, Cynthia McKinney and many others will provide commentary and perspective surrounding the debates. Best of all, they'll use the VoterWatch media player, to comment and blog within footage of the U.S. presidential debates. So, feel free to get your analysis from the paid presidential supporters in spin alley (which John Stewart aptly renamed "deception lane!"), OR check out the analysis from across the political spectrum from the likes of Brett Winterble of Covert Radio, Green Party Presidential Candidate, Cynthia McKinney, Political Author and Commentator, Dick Morris, Political Strategist, Sophia Nelson, Public Agenda, Reason Magazine, The Bob Barr for President Team, The Heritage Foundation, and VoteGopher.

Here's a handy dandy guide for all of you out there, and especially those on college campuses. The Harvard Institute of Politics has put together the Absentee Voter Guide. This guide contains all the information college students need to vote by absentee ballot from school. You can get absentee ballot or mail-in voting applications from all U.S. states as well as absentee and mail-in voting requirements. Please pass it around!

This past Saturday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Dick Cheney to preserve all vice presidential records--huzzah! Read more about the case below:

• news story about the case
• Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's memorandum opinion
• the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), who filed the lawsuit
• more about the Presidential Records Act

Thanks again to Rebecca Blakeley to alerting me about this story!

A tip of the FGI hat to GovGab blogger Jacob. He reminded me that this coming week the GovGab blog celebrates its first birthday.

The GovGab blog is brought to you by the same agency that brings us usa.gov, which I find as staggeringly useful as others find the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

To celebrate this first birthday, each of the GovGab bloggers will blog about what the U.S. was like when they turned 1 year old. This sounds like fun. Since I'm subscribed to their RSS feed, I'll get to see every entry. How about you?

I've seen a lot of good resources related to Hurricane Ike over the past week, and thought I'd compile them here.

• Images of the devastation that Ike wrought, from the USGS, NOAA, and NASA.
• Applying for assistance through FEMA.
• Hurricane assistance resources through USA.gov and Health & Human Services.
• Planning for future hurricane preparedness.
• Rebecca Blakeley has posted a list of places you can volunteer or donate at Gov Docs on the Bayou.
• I also used a recent FGI tip to stay informed! By watching the NASA tweets, I saw when this message was posted about the re-opening of Johnson Space Center on Monday.

I'm begging your indulgence for a post that's not really within the scope of Free Government Information, but should be of interest to the many pro and amateur policy wonks out there.

I got to thinking that no matter who wins in November, the next President will face some major challenges. But many of these challenges require knowledge and ways of thought that haven't seemed to be common to our political leaders.

So, being a good librarian, I created a reading/viewing list for the next President. I used OCLC Open WorldCat to build my list and you can find it at http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/dcornwall/lists/188566.

I tried to keep the list short because I know the next President may well be too busy to read much other than reports from his staff and hopefully some outside sources once in a while.

Here are my choices:

Rosenberg, M. B. (2001). The basics of nonviolent communication an introductory training in nonviolent communication. Sherman, TX: Center for Nonviolent Communication.

York, S., & Sheen, M. (2001). Bringing down a dictator. [Washington, D.C.]: York Zimmerman.

Flynn, S. E. (2007). The edge of disaster: rebuilding a resilient nation. New York: Random House.

Theoharis, A. G. (2004). The FBI & American democracy: a brief critical history. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

York, S., & Kingsley, B. (2000). A force more powerful. [Princeton, NJ]: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Muller, R. (2007). Physics for future Presidents, supreme court justices, congressmen, CEOs, diplomats, professors, and other world leaders. Southbank, Victoria: Thomson.

Beck, A. T. (1999). Prisoners of hate: the cognitive basis of anger, hostility, and violence. New York: HarperCollins.

Prothero, S. R. (2007). Religious literacy: what every American needs to know--and doesn't. [San Francisco]: HarperSanFrancisco.

You can read the reasons for my choices on my list.

I think all these items could be consumed and digested between the election and Inauguration Day.

What do *You* think the next President read or watch? Make up your own WorldCat list and post the link to the list here. Tell your friends to make up their own lists. If enough people take up this call, maybe I'll search for ways to get the lists to the attention of our next chief executive.

Did you know that a number of government agencies offer free ringtones for your cell phone? Here are the ones we know about

• US Federal Agencies
  • Army
    • GoArmy.com Games and Downloads
      http://www.goarmy.com/downloads/ringtones.jsp - Here you *could* get a ringtone of a DI telling you to "drop and give me 20!", but I'd go for the Army Strong theme. I can so see it in many bold action movies.
• US States and Localities
  • Arizona
    • Arizona Fish and Game Department - http://www.azgfd.gov/downloads/ringtones.shtml - Includes ringtones for eagles, elk, wild turkeys, coyotes, rattlesnakes and more
  • Kentucky
    • Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources - http://fw.ky.gov/ringtonedownloads.asp - Want an angry bear to announce you've got a call? This is the place to go! Or perhaps you'd prefer a barred owl or gray tree frog

Need more ringtones? Go to usa.gov and search on "ringtones." One caution, some of the pages, especially from schools, appear to have been spammed. Look for site excerpt featuring complete sentences and a meaningful page title.

Do you have a gov't agency ringtone you'd like to share? Let us know in comments. Ringtones can come from any level of government from around the world, but must be identifiable as an official government agency page!

Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org, Inc. is at work again, freeing what should be free. He has purchased the Code of Federal Regulations from GPO and is making it publicly available without charge. This is the raw, SGML and images version that GPO sells for over $17,000. Carl says:

Our intent in purchasing this product is to make it available in raw format on the Internet for access by anonymous FTP. We will not charge for access, nor will we restrict usage by the imposition of any license agreements. Since public documents are defined as “public property” in 44 USC 1119, this deployment of the raw feed of the Code will make it available for all to use without restriction and will allow for-profit and non-profit entities to construct alternative versions of the CFR.

See details here and Public Resource's GPO page.

Did you know that the first announcement of the discovery of ice on Mars was by NASA on Twitter.com? Did you know that the Joint Forces Command and the Office on Women's Health in the Health and Human Services Department are using twitter to announce speaking engagements and deliver medical news and advice?

Did you know that you can receive Twitter messages on your cell phone, or your instant messaging client, or by e-mail, or via other Web 2.0 applications, such as Facebook?

Welcome to the new world of government communication.

• Psst! Are you Twittering yet?, By Heather B. Hayes, FCW, August 25, 2008.

See also Government Agencies Tweet @ Twitter, and Twitter Fan Wiki USGovernment, and Members of Congress who Twitter.

This is one of the reasons why I love the Web. Last year, BBC's Radio 3 Sunday feature broadcast a radio story by UK journalist and fringe explorer Ken Hollings about the RAND corporation (can also be accessed here). RAND (standing for Research ANd Development), the first think tank, was once dubbed the ‘malevolent university’ and influencer of presidents.

I wouldn't have even heard this fascinating history if not for the Web as it was recently posted to BoingBoing. Wikipedia's article on RAND has an amazing list of notable RAND participants including more than 30 Nobel Prize winners. RAND has been highly influential on US foreign and public policy since WWII. I highly recommend listening to this one!

[Thanks BoingBoing!]

In my department, we're preparing for Constitution Day on Wednesday--printing stickers and buttons, boxing up pocket Constitutions, creating activity booklets, updating our website. Last year, we handed out hundreds of pocket Constitutions in a matter of hours at the Political Science department, and this year we've already begun receiving requests for them. This year, we're also participating in a community event at the local Barnes and Noble, which is designed to draw grade-school kids and their parents. We’ve even got a giant replica print of the Constitution (with extra blank but “antique-looking” pages) for the kids to sign.

Here are some of the many resources available online:

• Search for great resources from the Constitution Center!
• Peggy Garvin recently posted a great summary of the purpose and origin of Constitution Day on LLRX.com.
• If you're looking for last-minute display ideas, here's a great webpage at the Minnesota State University of Mankato (recommended to me by Shari Laster, Gov Docs librarian at the University of Akron—thanks, Shari!).
• Also, here are some sources for pocket constitutions and related government publications (great giveaways!).
• And we printed our replica based on the gorgeous images on NARA’s Charters of Freedom website.
• See more primary resources at the Library of Congress website.
• The Constitution Day website also has trivia and great resources for making activity booklets, etc.

I'm interested to hear what your library has planned for the event--please comment below and let us know what you're doing, where you found resources, etc. Are you planning events at the library, on a campus, in the community?

In this interview, Jon Udell talks with Director and Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy about the future of government information distribution and the paper Government Data and the Invisible Hand (Robinson, David, Harlan Yu, William P. Zeller, and Edward W. Felten. SSRN, May 28, 2008). The paper proposes that the government should reduce its role in presenting important government information to citizens and should provide reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.

• Ed Felten & David Robinson of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, 46 minutes, 21.1mb, recorded 2008-09-02

The Center for Information Technology Policy is sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. It promotes an informed public discussion of digital technologies. addresses digital technologies as they interact with policy, markets and society.

Jon describes the conversation on his blog: A conversation with the founders of Princeton’s Center for Information Techology Policy.

Also see:
Freedom to Tinker
Center for Information Technology Policy
Ed Felten
David Robinson
Jon Udell and his blog
XRBL ("a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data")

According to the Census Bureau, by 2030 one in five Americans, including me, will be 65 or older. It's never too early to prepare for old age, it seems like a good time to highlight this guide linked from the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange:

Selected Bibliography of Gerontology Resources in the Social Work Library, with Selected Web Resources (Sally Haines Lawler, University of Michigan, 2003) Last updated 9/26/2006

The scope note (introduction) to the guide emphasizes that this list is not comprehensive and that people should contact library staff for additional resources. While not comprehensive, the guide is pretty extensive with lists of books, journals, databases, web sites and more. A too brief sample of what's available includes:

• Andersson, L. (Ed.). (2002). Cultural gerontology. Westport, Conn.: Auburn House. HQ 1061 .C7931 2002
• Birren, J.E. (2001). Telling the stories of life through guided autobiography groups. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. RC 953.8 .R43 B5751 2001
• American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Albany, NY: American Orthopsychiatric Association

  * Full text available only to U-M students; available on campus at Social Work Library (1988-present), Shapiro Undergraduate Library (1980-present)
  * Indexed in: AGELINE, Psychological Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Work Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts

• AGELINE

  Conduct a subject search for gerontology. Also try subject searches for social gerontology, geropsychology, psychological aging, biological aging, successful aging, older adults, old old, and young old. Try to be as specific as possible in this database, as it covers aging and older adults, in particular the social, psychological, economic, policy and health care aspects. For additional information, see the Social Work Library's guide "How to Search CSA Illumina."

• http://www.americangeriatrices.org/ American Geriatrics Society.

Aside from the extensive list of resources, the guide also offers a number of search terms to use when searching gerontology issues in library catalogs. Some of the terms offered are: Aged offenders, Frail elderly, Hospice care, Rural aged, and Terminal care.

Check out the rest of the guide. Then see what other topics are available. And if you are a documents librarian with a guide, please add your guide to the wiki!

Stevan Harnad has proposed a Plan B for NIH Public Access Mandate: A Deposit Mandate, American Scientist Open Access Forum, Sat, 13 Sep 2008.

See also: Hearing on bill that would block NIH Public Access policy.

This is a pretty good popular-press overview of the problems of digital preservation of government information and some of the steps being taken to address the problems.

• In Digital Age, Federal Files Blip Into Oblivion, By Robert Pear, New York Times, September 13, 2008.

Sample of the problems:

The Achilles' heel of record-keeping is people.

In an effort to save money, federal agencies are publishing fewer reports on paper and posting more on the Web.

The Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency lists more than 50 "broken links" that once connected readers to documents on depletion of the ozone layer of the atmosphere.

At least 20 documents have been removed from the Web site of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. They include a draft report highly critical of the civil rights policies of the Bush administration.

93 percent of [top officials surveyed at NASA] were violating federal requirements for preserving e-mail correspondence.

"Most Web records do not warrant permanent retention," because they do not have "long-term historical value," the [National] Archives said.

Alarmed at the possible loss of White House e-mail messages, the House passed a bill in July that would require agencies to preserve more electronic records. ... Republican opponents said the requirements would be onerous and costly. Mr. Bush has threatened to veto the bill, saying it could "interfere with a president's ability to carry out his or her constitutional and statutory responsibilities."

See also: Citizens in the Dark? Government Information in the Digital Age.

Senator questions progress on federal spending Web site, By Gautham Nagesh, NextGov, 09/11/08.

Law requires the Office of Management and Budget to maintain a site (USAspending.gov) listing organizations that receive more than $25,000 in federal funds.

The law requires agencies to submit every 30 days a report listing the groups issued grants and the amount of the grant. USASpending.gov's data quality page shows, however, that some agencies, including the Homeland Security, Labor, Transportation and Veterans Affairs departments have not updated grant information since last year.

The Bill: Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (HR 6845)

The Hearings: Hearing on: H.R. 6845, the "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act" Thursday 09/11/2008 - 1:00 PM House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. [streaming RealPlayer video]

News Reports:

• New Bill Would Forbid Copyright Transfer as a Condition for Federal Funding Library Journal Academic Newswire, September 11, 2008. "If passed, measures like the recently enacted NIH public access policy, which requires investigators who accept taxpayer funds to deposit their final papers in the PubMed Central repository and give the agency a non-exclusive right to offer free access within a year, would be prohibited."
• At Hearing, Witness Says NIH Policy Will “Destroy” Commercial Scientific Publishing Library Journal Academic Newswire, September 11, 2008. "Not only was the legislation motivating the hearing barely discussed, the testimony and the questions asked by committee members looked far more to the economic future of science publishing than to public access to taxpayer funded research." Former Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman bluntly told lawmakers that in his opinion, the NIH mandate would “destroy the market” for commercial scientific journals, and cause a “dilution” of copyright.
• Congressional Hearing Over Public Access Filled With High Drama By Jennifer Howard , The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 12, 2008 [subscription required, but freely available here for a short time.]

  A life-and-death battle is going on over public access to federally financed research—life for taxpayers and many scientists, and death for publishers. Or so each side claims. That battle, whose outcome will affect many university researchers, kicked into high gear on Capitol Hill yesterday, as the combatants debated the merits of a bill that would curtail the National Institutes of Health's public-access policy.

See also:
A Perfect Storm of Bad Copyright Legislation By Alex Curtis, Public Knowledge, on September 10, 2008.

Yesterday, the Partnership for a Secure America released a new WMD Report Card. The report gives our defenses against a WMD terrorist attack as a grade "C," a slight upgrade from the 9/11 Public Discourse Project's 2005 grade of "D." Former 9/11 Commissioners Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-IN) and Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA) were present at the press conference.

In related news...

• President Bush spoke this morning at the dedication of the Pentagon Memorial.
• The Flight 93 Memorial is underway; NPR has a story about visiting the site.
• And the memorial at the World Trade Center site is still under construction; Mayor Bloomberg demanded yesterday that it be completed by 2011.