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Jonathan Walters

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Contention over Catastrophes

December 1, 2005 Friction among state, local and federal disaster responders imperils recovery from emergencies. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, only one thing seemed to disintegrate as fast as the levees that were supposed to protect the city: the relationships that are supposed to bond local, state and federal officials during and ...

Frayed Connections

March 1, 2002 America's federal, state and local governments must learn to get along if they are to provide real homeland security. s chaos reigned in lower Manhattan on the morning of Sept. 11, an entirely different scene was unfolding more than 150 miles north in Albany, New York's capital. There, state officials ...

The Power of Pay

January 1, 1999 hen the ink dried on the collective bargaining agreement signed last August by Federal Aviation Administration and National Air Traffic Controllers Association officials, union members got the gold. They won a collective $200 million raise over three years, adding as much as $10,000 a year to the salaries of controllers ...

Count Your Costs

May 1, 1997 ver the last few years the General Services Administration has been squeezed hard-the agency's budget and staff have each shrunk by almost 30 percent since 1993. In the face of that kind of pressure, top managers had a pretty logical epiphany: They realized they had better start coming up with ...

Anatomy of ABC

May 1, 1997 ecently the Veterans Affairs Department's Veterans Benefits Administration began calculating the cost of activities related to key outputs (called product lines), including the cost of processing death awards at the adminsitration's Philadelphia Regional Office and Insurance Center. In fiscal 1996, the office processed 134,285 death awards at a total administrative ...