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Nicholas Johnson Topics & Resources

For most research you will want to start with “General Resources.” However, if for some reason you wish to explore Nicholas Johnson’s contribution to these and other topics, you might want to begin with the pages for Nicholas Johnson Material by Source, Nicholas Johnson Archives, Nicholas Johnson Personal, or Nicholas Johnson Material by Topic.

If you know what subjects, topics, and key words you’re looking for, you can use the search feature, below. Just indicate whether you want to search his Web site or his Blog, put the terms you want to search for in the box (using “AND” and “OR” if you wish), and click on “Search.” As this section of the General Resources page is expanded over time there will be suggested search terms and some examples of pages devoted to single topics. For now, we hope you will find this search feature helpful.

 

Samples of Nicholas Johnson’s Topics

The samples, below, are examples of the topic pages and their possible contents.

Athletics

•”Football-Related Blog Essays,” 2006-2015 (40 essays regarding football and the football industry, and its relations to crime, gambling, alcohol and negative neighborhood impact)

Attractions

•Iowa Environmental Project (AKA, “Earthpark,” “Iowa Child,” “Rainforest;” 2004-2006; hundreds of pages, links and analyses of attractions that succeed and why others fail)

Bicycling

• “Bicycles as Problem Solvers”

Economics

• TIFs and Crony Capitalism: Links to 40 TIF Blog Essays, 2006-2015

 Advocacy – General

• Activism.net • American Friends Service Committee • Center for Auto Safety • Center for Science in the Public Interest • Combined Efforts • Common Cause • Consumer Reports • Corporate Crime Reporter • Fair Vote • Government Accountability Project • Honor the Earth • Innocence Project • Institute for Policy Studies • Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement • Kiva • National Family Farm Coalition • National Nurses United • Public Citizen • PIRG, U.S. • Ralph Nader • Resources for Life • U.S. PIRG • Veterans for Peace

Advocacy – Cyber Watch

• Activism: Cyber Rights and Online Civil Liberties • Center for Digital Democracy • CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility • eff (Electronics Frontier Foundation) • epic (Electronic Privacy Information Center) • Wired

Advocacy – Media Reform

• FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) • Knowledge Ecology International • On the Media • Project Censored • Voices

Alcohol

“Alcohol’s Effects on the Body,” National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Athletics

• 142 Links to Wide Range of Sports-Related Online Resources
•“Football-Related Blog Essays,” 2006-2015 (40 essays regarding football and the football industry, and its relations to crime, gambling, alcohol and negative neighborhood impact)

Attractions

•Iowa Environmental Project (AKA, “Earthpark,” “Iowa Child,” “Rainforest;” 2004-2006; hundreds of pages, links and analyses of attractions that succeed and why others fail)

Bicycling

Nicholas Johnson, “Bicycles as Problem Solvers”

Democracy

See Nicholas Johnson, Columns of Democracy and ColumnsOfDemocracy.com/Resources

Economics

TIFs and Crony Capitalism: Links to 40 TIF Blog Essays, 2006-2015

Entertainment Business

•Actors’ Equity •American Association of Community Theatre •Combined Efforts Theatre •American Film Institute •filmsite •SAG-AFTRA •Variety •National Film Board of Canada• Writers Guild of America, East •Writers Guild of America, West

Environment

•National Resources Defense Council
•U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
•Appalachian Trail

FCC

•Federal Communications Commission
• “A Day in the Life: The Federal Communications Commission”

Finance

Grant Sabatier’s Millennial Money Blog; “Millionaire By Age 30? One Blogger Offers a Few Not-So-Easy Steps,” Here & Now, WBUR, April 25, 2017

For the life that enables the savings that become wealth, see Nicholas Johnson, Test Pattern for Living

General Semantics

• The Institute for General Semantics

Government

• USA.gov (“Official Guide to Government Information and Services”)
• The White House
• The U.S. Government’s Open Data
• “City of Iowa City” (vast range of government and community information)
• “If the Lieutenant Governor Becomes Governor, May She Then Appoint a New Lieutenant Governor?” Iowa Attorney General Opinion, #17-04-1, May 1, 2017, p. 16 (a pdf file)
•Steve Ballmer’s “USA Facts”

Healthcare

•American Cancer Society •American Heart Association •American Medical Association •Centers for Disease Control and Preventiion •Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA Center for•Journal of the American Medical Association •Lancet, The •Mayo Clinic •Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa •National Library of Medicine •New England Journal of Medicine •Nutrition Action Healthletter, Center for Science in the Public Interest’s •Resources for Life, Gregory Johnson’s •University of Iowa Health Care •University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics •WebMD

Higher Education

• The Chronicle of Higher education
• American Association of University Professors

Iowa Blogs

(a very small sample)
• Chris Liebig’s “A Blog About School” • Trish Nelson’s “Blog for Iowa” • John Deeth’s Blog • Gregory Johnson’s “Resources for Life”

K-12 Education

• “K-12 Education Research and Reference Links” (a more extensive listing of some 150 links)
• Education Week
• Iowa City Community School District”
• National Education Association

Law

• American Bar Association
• FindLaw
• U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Education

• American Association of Law Schools •“Random Thoughts on Law School Rankings” and “So You Want to be a Lawyer: A Play in Four Acts” • University of Iowa College of Law

Media

Media – Major

• Asahi Shimbun, The • Associated Press • Bloomberg • BBC News • CBS Sports • Christian Science Monitor • Daily Iowan, The • Dawn • Des Moines Register, The • Five Thirty Eight • Gazette, The • Guardian, The • Iowa Watch (Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, The) • Iowa City Press-Citizen • Le Monde • NACIÓN, LA (Costa Rica) • npr • New York Times, The • PBS Newshour • ProPublica • Reuters • Rudaw • Salon • Slate • South China Morning Post • USA Today (and “topics”) • Washington Post, The

Media – Alternative

• Adbusters • AlterNet • Common Dreams • Democracy Now • Hightower Lowdown, The • Huffington Post • Naked Capitalism • Nation, The • Politico • Real Clear Politics • Talking Points Memo • Think Progress • Truth Dig • Truthout • Vox

Memorials

•John Craven •Bill Grubbe •Wendell Johnson •Frannie Riecken •Margaret Vasey •Steve Vasey •David Vernon •Willis Weber

Military

• Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Military Colleges and Academies”
• U.S. Department of Defense

Politics

• Democratic National Committee • Green Party • Libertarian Party • Republican National Committee
• Resources for Trump Watchers (includes links to sites of 11 media organizations’ daily postings to collections of stories covering President Trump) • Politics Section, The Washington Post

Public Health

• American Public Health Association
• Public Citizen Health Research Group
• University of Iowa College of Public Health
• APHA, “What is Public Health?

Public Policy – Communications

• Aspen Institute Communications & Culture Program • Benton Foundation • Harvard Program on Informations Resources Policy (papers from 1973-2011) • Public Knowledge • Syracuse University Newhouse School (subjects/experts list) • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology • University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies (Media Studies) • University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communications Arts (Research Centers)

Public Policy – Housing

• Affordable Housing, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness” [or just link to USICH] • Homelessness, New York Times archive • National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty

Public Policy – Human Rights

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations
• Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa

Shipping

• Marine Insight, “10 Largest Container Shipping Companies in the World,” April 26, 2017 • N.S. Savannah (world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship) • Shipping Ports • Shipyard Reports • U.S. Merchant Marine Academy • U.S. Maritime Administration

Terrorism

• FBI – What We Investigate – Terrorism
• Links to 14 Essays on Terrorism and War

University of Iowa

• University of Iowa