Author: Richard Schenkar

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s web site–http://www.fda.gov–is a useful source of the latest information on recalls and other food, drug, and product-related issues.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety offers a website full of state law information, statistics, and crash information at http://www.iihs.org. You can also use http://www.hwysafety.org to get to the same site.

American Theater Web, at http://americantheaterweb.com, provides up-to-date information about current live theater in the USA–including Broadway, off-Broadway, and local/regional theater.

Golf Magazine‘s Golf Course Guide to 20,000-plus courses worldwide will prepare you for your trip at http://www.golfcourse.com.

From the National Motorists Association comes a speed trap database at http://www.speedtrap.org. Know before you go.

There are two interesting sources for mushroom research and information. One, from the Canadian Forest Service, National Resources Canada, is called “Matchmaker–Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest” and is available at http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/biodiversity/matchmaker.
The other, from the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University, is the Pacific Northwest Fungi Database, available at http://pnwfungi.wsu.edu/programs/aboutDatabase.asp.
Happy hunting!

Every month, the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) offers a free article on their web site, http://www.ali-aba.org/free, from several different areas of practice.
These are selected from their publications like The Practical Lawyer or from continuing legal education materials. There is an archive that goes back several years. You share your name and e-mail address and get solid, helpful articles.

This weblog will connect you with information you want that makes you more effective.