Too late to do this for 2014, but maybe next year this can be looked at for the winter/spring US legislation season.
1) All thread subjects regarding US state/Ca. province legislation should begin w/ the fully-spelled-out name of the state. There s/b only one thread per state/province. (I'm hoping that there's a way to catenate an existing thread on to the end of another. If not, perhaps there s/b. There may also be other ways to enforce this discipline.)
2) Threads regarding US local jurisdiction legislation should be similarly-titled: state + city (or if relevant, county, parish, whatever).
3) Threads regarding other countries'/bodies' (EU/WHO/US FDA etc.) legislation/proclamations/etc. should be titled beginning with the country name (e.g. "EU" or "WHO" etc.) and then the province (if relevant) and more localized jurisdiction name (if relevant). For ex. "UK Scotland - ... " or something like that.
It's just not that easy to find stuff in legislation, and doing any kind of search with a location name just doesn't seem to be doing the trick for me. And since CASAA (sensibly) only does alerts or calls when legislation/ordinances are about to be heard in cmte (etc.), a google search on casaa.org doesn't seem to help much either. It can also be awkward when there are multiple pieces of legislation pending in a particular jurisdiction, each with their own separate threads. Ideally (and I'm getting greedy here) perhaps a regional CASAA rep. s/b assigned to each US state to do a weekly "summary" post during the legislative season, as bills come and go (i.e. die in cmte). Sometimes the conversation w/i the threads is limited to insiders/locals, and it's hard for a noob to figure out what bills are still "live."
I realize that this is going to take some work, but perhaps the way to start is to archive the whole legislation forum at some point (perhaps at the end of the summer) and then start over again. There isn't that much traffic there, so a daily cleanup should keep things from building up. (I'm game for that, in case help is desired.)
Ideally there should also be some kind of "garbage collection" procedure, but ... maybe that's for 2016. One thing at a time
Just my
1) All thread subjects regarding US state/Ca. province legislation should begin w/ the fully-spelled-out name of the state. There s/b only one thread per state/province. (I'm hoping that there's a way to catenate an existing thread on to the end of another. If not, perhaps there s/b. There may also be other ways to enforce this discipline.)
2) Threads regarding US local jurisdiction legislation should be similarly-titled: state + city (or if relevant, county, parish, whatever).
3) Threads regarding other countries'/bodies' (EU/WHO/US FDA etc.) legislation/proclamations/etc. should be titled beginning with the country name (e.g. "EU" or "WHO" etc.) and then the province (if relevant) and more localized jurisdiction name (if relevant). For ex. "UK Scotland - ... " or something like that.
It's just not that easy to find stuff in legislation, and doing any kind of search with a location name just doesn't seem to be doing the trick for me. And since CASAA (sensibly) only does alerts or calls when legislation/ordinances are about to be heard in cmte (etc.), a google search on casaa.org doesn't seem to help much either. It can also be awkward when there are multiple pieces of legislation pending in a particular jurisdiction, each with their own separate threads. Ideally (and I'm getting greedy here) perhaps a regional CASAA rep. s/b assigned to each US state to do a weekly "summary" post during the legislative season, as bills come and go (i.e. die in cmte). Sometimes the conversation w/i the threads is limited to insiders/locals, and it's hard for a noob to figure out what bills are still "live."
I realize that this is going to take some work, but perhaps the way to start is to archive the whole legislation forum at some point (perhaps at the end of the summer) and then start over again. There isn't that much traffic there, so a daily cleanup should keep things from building up. (I'm game for that, in case help is desired.)
Ideally there should also be some kind of "garbage collection" procedure, but ... maybe that's for 2016. One thing at a time
Just my
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