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Get Out of Town.
Sorry about the lack of posts this week. Sometimes the regular job they pay me to do happens to take up all of my time. Anyway, here's a link to a provocative op-ed by former Des Moines Register editor Jim Gannon in USA Today, making the case for moving substantial portions of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington to the hinterlands. I disagree with Jim's underlying premise--that all of this should be a precursor to simply getting rid of much of the government--but I'm not about to rip him, because, ummm... well... he's my father-in-law. Besides, I'm all for moving agencies around. Think of the expense accounts we Washington-based journalists would be able to demand with agencies' headquarters spread out all over the country.
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
