I thought we spent a little time at the recent Board meeting talking about 
Senate Bill 786 (regarding weather information), introduced by Senator Santorum.   
Couldn't find any reference to it in the minutes so I guess it was a brief 
mention - perhaps in John Chwat's presentation.   I guess the bottom line was 
that we (John, Chris, etc) didn't think there was a real chance if it becoming 
law, so we didn't take any action.  

I'm second-guessing that now after reading an article about it in Information 
World:
    http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702845

I also believe we have a lot of members who find our association with the NWS to 
be very positive (and vice versa).   I think it'd be a good move for us to 
publicly state that we do not support S.786.

             -- Tom


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