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03/30/06

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Topics and Issues:
bulletTo be notified of upcoming House Ag Committee Farm Bill hearings, visit
http://agriculture.house.gov/Eupdates/updates.html.
bulletNEW info on the Cow Share Bill Read More Here.
bulletUPDATE!!!! Feb 10: Biologically Intensive Agriculture and Organic Farming (BIOAg) program at WSU information (Subject to write in about)!More info here http://www.wsffn.org/alerts/alert_jan_06.aspx
bulletBan Toxic Flame Retardants Issue
bulletSenate Bill 5602 Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development (submitted by Austin Chadd, thanks).
bulletOrganic Products website from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (Submitted by: Carlos A. Diaz) http://www.fas.usda.gov/agx/organics/index.htm
bulletThe Civil Rights Documentation Project from the Dirksen Congressional Center (Submitted by: Carlos A. Diaz) http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/index.htm
bullet109th Congressional District Summary Files from the Census Bureau (Submitted by: Carlos A. Diaz) http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/109th.html
bulletDocsCite (cite govt. documents using APA and MLA formats) (Submitted by: Carlos A. Diaz) http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/docscite/docscite.htm
bulletThe ENRON trial is about to begin.  You may want to take a look at our library holdings which can be found at: http://cals.evergreen.edu/search~b1i1c1a1/w?SEARCH=enron (Submitted by:Carlos A. Diaz)

Writing to Editors and Elected Officials:

bulletNancy Parkes ways on Writing to Elected Officials and Writing Letters to the Editor.
bullet http://www.progressivepunch.org/
bullet http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/
bullet http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

If you have an article or topic for people to write about, please send an email with link or textual information and the source of information to cwm3rd@comcast.net thanks!
 

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