Thursday, February 21, 2013

Directory of Trade Schools

With businesses and for-profit schools competing on the web, it is hard to find a plain nonbiased listing of trade, industrial, and vocational schools just by googling. But you can get to some of that information in the resource called Oregon CIS. Washington County provides access to this. It contains trade schools here and in the other states too. For how CIS decides which schools to add, read on

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The American Presidency Project

 
 
The American Presidency Project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  The archives contain over 102,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.  According to the website, The American Presidency Project is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database:
 
  • The Messages and Papers of the Presidents:  Washington - Taft (1789-1913)
  • The Public Papers of the Presidents:  Hoover - G. W. Bush (1929 - 2007) and Obama (2009)
  • The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:  Carter - G. W. Bush (1977-2009)
  • The Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents:  Obama (2009 - 2012)

The archives also contain thousands of other documents such as party platforms, candidates' remarks, Statements of Administration Policy, documents released by the Office of the Press Secretary, and election debates. 

This is a great resource for anyone interested in the Presidency of the United States.