The Vast Majority of IRS Employees Aren't Corrupt
GSA Mishandled Executive Bonuses
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Infographic: Nominee Limbo
Will You Be Furloughed?
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Privatization: What Works
March 27, 1997 letters@govexec.com The chairman of a congressional panel that is targeting government programs for privatization launched the panel's review this month with a study of privatization in state and local governments. Rep. Scott Klug, R-Wis., head of the House Republican Task Force on Privatization, asked the General Accounting Office to look ...
Earn Our Trust
March 24, 1997 letters@govexec.com The best way federal leaders can improve the government is to better manage programs, not eliminate them, according to a new survey of Americans' attitudes toward their government. In the poll, which was commissioned by the Council for Excellence in Government and conducted by Peter Hart and Robert Teeter, ...
Web Remembers Bombing
March 24, 1997 letters@govexec.com Federal World Wide Web sites throughout the country will honor the memory of the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing next month on the incident's two-year anniversary by displaying a memorial image on their home pages. A small graphic of white flowers and a teddy bear will appear on ...
Panel to Impose IRS RIF Plan
March 24, 1997 letters@govexec.com An outside panel will decide how the IRS will conduct its reduction-in-force later this spring because the agency and its union could not agree on a plan. The IRS and the National Treasury Employees Union reached an impasse on more than 60 points of contention Friday after months of ...
Travel Reform Team Honored
March 21, 1997 letters@govexec.com Anyone who has traveled on business for the federal government gave a great sigh of relief in September when several important travel reforms were enacted in a major legislative package passed by Congress. The group that recommended the changes adopted in the legislation was rewarded Tuesday for its efforts ...
Coalition: Hire Hispanics
March 21, 1997 letters@govexec.com A coalition of more than 30 Hispanic civil rights groups yesterday criticized the Clinton administration for what they said was a low level of Hispanic representation in the federal workforce, especially at the executive levels. Rep. Esteban Torres, D-Calif., said at a press conference yesterday that Latino representation among ...
Award-Winning Job Placement
March 19, 1997 letters@govexec.com Vice President Gore today awarded one of his coveted Hammer Awards to the organizations involved in a job placement program for laid-off federal employees and contractors in the Washington area. The Metro Area Reemployment Project, run out of five centers in the capital and its suburbs, combined the resources ...
Labor Union Backs Herman
March 19, 1997 letters@govexec.com Hoping to help breathe life into the nomination of Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor, the union representing employees at Labor Department headquarters in Washington announced its support for President Clinton's choice to head the department. Local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 4,000 ...
Public Service Award Winners
March 14, 1997 letters@govexec.com Each year the GEICO Public Service Awards honor civil servants whose efforts do not fit within their 9-to-5 job descriptions. "We established the GEICO Public Service Awards to help focus attention on the many ways in which federal employees contribute to the quality of life in our nation, and ...
Transform or Vanish
March 14, 1997 letters@govexec.com Don't ask: "What can we do with the resources we have?" Ask: "What do our customers need, and how can we provide it?" Change the way your agency thinks about how it provides its services, or your agency will disappear in the next couple of decades, argues a new ...
