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
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Tom Shoop
Vice President and Editor in Chief
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.
Will the Sequester Happen or Not?
October 23, 2012 President Obama was very clear about the looming budget debacle in the final presidential debate last night: "The sequester is not something I proposed. It's something Congress has proposed. It will not happen." But maybe he wasn't so clear. After the debate, in comments to reporters, David Plouffe, Obama's campaign ...
The last debate: Defense and the sequester that 'will not happen'
October 22, 2012 In the third and final presidential debate, from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., the focus was supposed to be on foreign policy. But it turned out to be the most substantive of the three discussions between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about the federal government's power, role and budget. ...
Romney in the Bureaucratic Weeds
October 22, 2012 Just how detail-oriented is Mitt Romney? Conisder this anecdote that leads a New York Times exploration of his management style: As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney could not resist burrowing into the bureaucratic weeds: He once took the statewide math and reading test for 10th graders, then startled his education ...
TSA seeks to fire, suspend screeners
October 19, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would seek to fire 25 employees at Newark Liberty Airport and suspend 19 others for improperly screening checked luggage. The action comes as a result of an investigation involving hidden cameras in screening rooms last year. Eight employees already were fired in ...
How Many Hours Do You Really Work?
October 18, 2012 Do you ever wonder about those people who say they work insane amounts of hours each week? It turns out they're probably exaggerating. At Quartz, our sister publication focusing on global business, Daniel Yanofsky writes about a Bureau of Labor Statistics study detailing the differences that emerge when people are ...
From OPM to the Campaign Trail
October 17, 2012 Living in the swing state of Virginia means seeing a healthy dose of campaign ads this election season. When President Obama and Mitt Romney aren't duking it out in dueling spots that seem to run back-to-back through the course of every evening, the state's two Senate candidates, Democrat Tim Kaine ...
Obama-Romney 2: Women, security and 'trickle-down government'
October 16, 2012 A liveblog of the second encounter between President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., where the two candidates slugged it out on issues ranging from embassy security to "trickle-down government" to hiring women to executive positions in government. 10: 27: Romney goes back to ...
Meningitis, Twitter and Federal Brands
October 16, 2012 When it comes to a public health crisis, the public apparently wants to know what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has to say. At least on Twitter. Mashable reports that a study shows that since news of a meningitis outbreak caused by a contaminated steroid drug broke, Twitter ...
Vice presidential debate: What they said about government
October 11, 2012 In what was possibly the most argumentative debate involving candidates on a national ticket, Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., sparred less than one might have expected Thursday over how to make government work better. While the candidates sharply differed over potential defense cuts and a range ...
IRS names acting commissioner
October 10, 2012 The IRS announced Wednesday that Steven Miller would become the agency's acting commissioner after its current chief, Doug Shulman, steps down Nov. 9. Shulman's five-year term ends next month, and he had announced earlier this year that he did not want to be nominated to a second term. The appointment ...
