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The article informs about the use of Loudoun County's Laserfiche enterprise content management system for creating an online form that residents could submit from home or through mobile device. Topics include views of Loudoun County database administration team manager Jakub Jedrzejczak, on same; retrieving documents from computer or mobile device; and eliminating the need for paper copies and physical file cabinets.

The article discusses the lack of housing assistance in the U.S. and the high amount of papers used and stored in offices during the 1980s. In 1988, city leaders were facing the challenge of providing social services, with housing as a major problem, according to William Davis, then president of the National League of Cities. That year, about 1.3 trillion documents were stored in U.S. offices which was negatively affecting cities by driving up storage costs.

The article offers information on the developments in the North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa. It is stated that the town is booming and North Liberty's City Council, planning board and other municipal commissions started using reams of paper to distribute financial documents, permit applications and other information for public meetings.

The article focuses on the survey by the "Government Product News" periodical on 500 procurement professionals from the National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP) in Herndon, Virginia, which shows that public purchasers still prefer paper than software in managing their operations.

This article focuses on The Paper Calculator, which was developed by Environmental Defense to provide information about the amounts of energy and wood used to make different types of paper. Users can see how using less paper or changing paper specifications can reduce environmental effects. The calculator also helps users measure and communicate the environmental benefits of their paper choices.

The article presents the author's views about the mess that is created at his workplace due to papers. Something in me rebels against a pristine surface with every paper clip, piece of paper and pencil placed precisely where one can find it. I will admit that the stacks of correspondence, jumble of business cards and scramble of ballpoint pens and pencils create moments of near panic when a note I desperately need for a story that is due two hours ago fails to materialize with my initial thrashing around among the detritus of weeks of accumulating. I have organizational boxes to clean up the mess, but that has not been of any help to me.