'Back-Door' Base Closures
Biden Talks Loss With Fallen Troops' Families
Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
The Numbers Game
November 1, 1997 hen the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, federal statistical and research activities seemed headed for trouble. Freshmen in the House complained that Washington-sponsored research duplicated what was already available from private sources. The prevailing view in the GOP seemed to agree with the famous Disraeli maxim: "There are three ...
The Worst is Yet to Come
August 1, 1996 t the risk of sounding like Chicken Little, the sky isn't looking too firmly placed in the firmament, even if it hasn't yet fallen. That's the conclusion emerging from the Congressional Budget Office's newly released "Economic and Budget Outlook" for fiscal years 1997 to 2006. CBO's 10-year look at fiscal ...
Struggling for Survival: The Case of the ACIR
August 1, 1996 ith the signing of the Treasury, Postal Service and general government appropriations bill last November, many thousands of federal employees who work in the agencies it covers breathed a sigh of relief. For them, there would be only one furlough and no more disruptions in pay. But the news was ...
Funding Reconstruction of the CandO Canal
August 1, 1996 n most people's minds, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was little but an abandoned ditch and pathway running west from Washington, D.C., until Supreme Court William O. Douglas began his campaign to promote it as a recreational resource. Douglas led many public walks along the canal towpath as he built ...
Stretching the Dime
August 1, 1996 ike Scrooge, the people running federal programs and agencies have seen in this bleak budget year a grim Christmas portrait of present and future. Not so fortunate as Scrooge, they have little hope that improvements in their performance will change the depressing outlook. The message was conveyed early in the ...
