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Government Executive Editor in Chief Tom Shoop, along with other editors and staff correspondents, look at the federal bureaucracy from the outside in.
Park Service: Increasingly Voluntary
Not only is the National Park Service raising fees, it's also increasingly likely that the people who are on the job in the parks -- performing day-to-day tasks and answering questions from visitors -- are volunteers. Last year at Yellowstone, the Jackson Hole Star-Tribune reports, more than 2,500 volunteers worked 100,000 hours -- the equivalent of 50 full-time employees.
(Hat tip: Fedsmith)
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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.
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