Weekend update: More research links from the week

Hope you're all having a good holiday weekend. Ours has been rainy off and on but we needed the change. Lots of fun things going on in the mountains this weekend, with a heritage festival downtown and much more. Just a great weekend for a short, nearly wet, motorcycle ride, too. More photos on my Southern Highlands Cam blog.

The links:

Reference:

Information Resources on Marine Mammals

Links to onine book searches and other downloadable texts from Resourceshelf.

EarthTrends Climate and Atmosphere Database: lots of stats on pollution, emissions, etc. Click tabs for other databases, including Population, Health and Human Well-being, with Internet, health, population trends, lots more. From World Resources Institute. Links to all the topics.

Statistics:

Census: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005, press release with links to the data.

Business:

The Use of Public Funds for Private Benefit: An Examination of the Relationship between Public Stadium Funding and Ticket Prices in the National Football League and Publicly Financed New Sports Facilities: Are They Economically Justifiable? A Case Study of the Los Angeles Staples Center, studies from the International Journal of Sport Finance. Some more sports business research reports listed on Docuticker this week.

Public Records:

Two good public records tips in TVCAlert (originally published in Cyberskeptics' Guide): The Making of a Public Records Researcher and The Art of Public Records Research, by Genie Tyburski. Found in one of these:

PoliceReports.us, with traffic accident/incident reports from several cities/towns nationwide. Check the 'Making' story for links to some other cities with reports online.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Jim Defede's blog, the former New Times/Miami Herald columnist, now a Miami radio commentator.

J-Prof, blog from UT's Jim Stovall.