President Obama visited Metropolitan Archives in Landover, Maryland yesterday to announce a plans to help provide loans to small businesses. Metropolitan Archives provides records storage, document scanning and shredding to Washington, DC area businesses. And with a secure facility in place I hope it made life a little easier on the secret service.

The school board of the Lee County School District are debating whether it makes more sense to shred expired documents or store them. The thinking is that they can simply stack the boxes in warehouses the district currently owns and then save the cost of shredding.

What they fail to understand is that they will still be required to shred them but the cost of a shredding service will only go up. And they will also have added the risk of storing records that are no longer needed.