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Charles S. Clark

Senior Correspondent Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.
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Park Service defends handling of Occupy D.C.

January 24, 2012 National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis on Tuesday defended his agency's decision to delay eviction of Occupy D.C. protesters from their four-month-old tent city at Washington's McPherson Square and denied charges by some Republicans that the Obama administration had ordered a lax police response to the situation. Jarvis said his ...

Interagency tourism council takes its maiden voyage

January 23, 2012 Jewel Samada/Newscom The day after President Obama appeared at Florida's Disney World to tout the economic impact of tourism, the new Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation held its inaugural meeting Friday in Shepherdstown, W.Va. Established under the president's America's Great Outdoors initiative announced in April 2010, the council consists ...

A BRAC for Everything

January 20, 2012 When released in 2005, the recommendations of the Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closing Commission made a lot of people unhappy. But that didn't halt the emergence of the term "BRAC-like" among advocates of various recent proposals for reorganizing government. Last winter, both the Office of Management and Budget and Rep. ...

New OMB team offers continuity in a turbulent time

January 20, 2012 Recent changes at the top of the Office of Management and Budget have come at a frantic time, as the office prepares President Obama's budget and sells his proposal to streamline six federal commerce and trade agencies. The president's decision to name Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients as acting OMB ...

A Monumental Gift

January 19, 2012 The generous donation the National Park Service announced on Thursday from philanthropist David Rubenstein adds another wrinkle to the saga of the nation's capital's 164-year-old struggle to build and maintain the Washington Monument. Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group investment firm, gave $7.5 million to speed repairs to the city's ...

Broadcasting board seeks restructuring of management, networks

January 19, 2012 Board chairman Walter Isaacson called the plan "a historic agreement by the board to streamline international broadcasting into one great organization."Flickr user jdlasica The Broadcasting Board of Governors proposes to conserve resources by reorganizing to trim overlap in its management of U.S. international broadcasting, the board announced Wednesday. Summarizing a ...

SEC inspector general announces departure

January 18, 2012 Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP H. David Kotz, who since 2007 has served as the lightning-rod inspector general at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is leaving government at the end of January to work for a private investigation firm. "I am tremendously proud of the accomplishments of my office and the agency ...

Contractors will remain in limbo during debates over automatic Defense cuts

January 18, 2012 OMB has said no automatic cuts are necessary immediately. Items contracted by the Pentagon include Humvees.Stephen Morton/AP "Fasten your seat belts," a panelist told Defense Department contractors ahead of likely sparring between lawmakers and the White House over the details of automatic budget cuts slated to hit the Pentagon in ...

OMB tasks 11 agencies with documenting duplication

January 17, 2012 Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients asked the chief operating officers of 11 agencies to appoint a "senior accountable official" by Feb. 1 to coordinate efforts to centralize information on possibly duplicative functions. Charles Dharapak/AP Fresh off President Obama's announcement of a bid to streamline the business and trade agencies, the ...

Correcting the MLK Memorial

January 13, 2012 Editorial pages have not lost all their influence in the age of declining newspapers. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told The Washington Post on Friday that he will take the paper up on its demand for a redo on the inscription to the Martin Luther King memorial that was dedicated on ...