Published on September 5, 2002, this report looks at how the September 11 terrorist attacks affected online content and changed the way Americans feel about Internet use. The 65-page document is divided into seven chapters, and its findings are based on research and surveys by the Pew Internet Project. Some of the material describes Americans' views on electronic information protection, such as...

Prepared by the Comptroller of New York City, William C. Thompson, Jr., and his colleagues, this 65-page report offers an intensive look into the short and long term economic impact of 9/11 on the city. Along with looking at the loss of human capital and potential as a result of these events, the report details the impact on the city's budget, cash balances, and the impact of the federal aid...

It has been a little more three years since the events of 9/11 so dramatically affected the lives of New Yorkers, and of course, of most Americans as well. While reconstruction and a rejuvenation of that part of Lower Manhattan continues apace, Project Rebirth has been documenting this process with time-lapse motion picture cameras since six months after 9/11. After this fairly ambitious project...

A General Accounting Office (GAO) publication, this 40-page document identifies and assesses the studies of ten key reports from nine different organizations regarding the economic impact of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center buildings in New York City (NYC). The organizations included in this review are the NYC Office of the Comptroller, NY Governor and State Division of the Budget,...

This brief report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) is a follow-up to their May 2002 review of the economic impact of the September 11th attacks on New York (last mentioned in the June 14, 2002 Scout Report). Going a step beyond, this report reviews the tax revenue loss estimates of the New York City Office of Management and Budget and the New York State Division of Budget. According to the...

Some of the newest resources on the Web are archive sites, that is sites that collect previously distributed media (see the July 13, 2001 Scout Report for discussion of an Election 2000 archive). Two such Websites have compiled information on the September 11, 2001 tragedies. September11.archive.org, a collaborative effort from Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and webArchivist.org,...

Here in the United States, one news story or set of stories subsumed all others this week. As clean up and rescue crews continue today to deal with the aftermath of the plane crashes in New York and Washington DC, many in the nation take time to reflect on this "day of prayer and remembrance." The Scout Report offers these sites in the hopes that they might prove helpful to our readers, as we all...

Some of the newest resources on the Web are archive sites, that is sites that collect previously distributed media (see the July 13, 2001 Scout Report for discussion of an Election 2000 archive). Two such Websites have compiled information on the September 11, 2001 tragedies. The Television Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, provides audio and video files from news agencies around the world...

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (see the April 4, 1997 Scout Report) has put together this page to help those looking for primary texts related to the September 11 events. The Avalon Project Website features documents in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government, and the offerings here reflect that span. The September 11 site is extensive and includes...

Six months after the September 11th tragedy, Huffman Aviation International, a small flight training school in Venice, Florida, received official documents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) allowing Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi (2 of the 19 plane hijackers) to attend their school. Subsequently, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigated the circumstances...