[On Oct. 5, the Coast Guard began requiring 96 hours' notice of ship arrivals instead of 24 hours, giving various agencies more time to plan clearances.] The slowdown in the economy this year has no doubt helped the port cope with increased post-attack security efforts, including putting goods under scrutiny that is said to be improved, but is not necessarily broader or more intense.
A senior government source has told me there is a "good degree of scrutiny" of the free schools budget, but that it was partly in proportion to the greater amounts of money being spent - not unusual for any capital spending project.
These are very hidden places that do not receive a good deal of scrutiny, so it's very difficult to talk about what's going on in them accurately".
These are concerns that are common to nearly every household, regardless of ideology, and these are questions that must be pursued at face value, with good information, critical scrutiny and the pursuit of pragmatic policy.
Public goods deserve public scrutiny, even if they are built using private capital.
Whatever the reason, these newly-surfaced photos of a young Dean Norris are fulfilling our addiction for a little good-natured celebrity scrutiny.
Mainstream news organizations have never be very good at self-scrutiny -- look how long it took the New York Times to offer its Judy Miller/Iraq war mea culpa.
"We ought to take the pot of money that we have, come up with reasonable quality measures in coordination with the industries wherever we can, and reward good providers with less scrutiny and less harassment, and go after bad providers with more scrutiny and more harassment," Mr. Scully said then.
