Up sprung Ourforests.org. We declared our own citizen comment period to send a strong message to the Forest Service. The efforts paid off. A few weeks ago, President Clinton directed the Forest Service to propose rules to ban further road-building in national forests. Much of the time, though, information that blitzes into officials offices follow a conventional route with a technological twist.
Some campaigns rely on a chain letter s potential.
Do not reply to me. Please sign and forward to others to sign. Other times, citizens galled by an agency s action jump in after the policy has been made. Rick Merritt heads up Postal Watch Inc., a web-based group he formed after learning last spring that the U.S. Postal Service finalized rules requiring private mailbox holders at outlets like Mailboxes, Etc. to disclose personal data that might harm their businesses. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, quickly attracted 57 cosponsors to a bill that would overturn the rules outright.