No USDA Furloughs
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Americans Still Like the Postal Service
Making Government 'Simpler'
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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.
What Obama and Romney Talked About
November 29, 2012 President Obama made good on a promise to meet with Mitt Romney, his vanquished opponent in the recent election, on Thursday. And judging from the White House's characerization of the meeting, it's seems likely he also fulfilled a pledge to pick Romney's brain on the subject of government management and ...
Faster, Cheaper, Smarter: How To Get There Through Technology
November 28, 2012 These days in government, it's all about efficiency, cost savings and streamlined operations. It's awfully hard to get there without the help of information technology -- and not just any old IT, but IT that makes government smarter, cheaper and faster. In a new special report for Government Executive, Adam ...
What Not Planning for a Sequester Looks Like
November 27, 2012 Kevin Baron of Foreign Policy's E-Ring blog posted an item yesterday on sequester planning -- or the lack thereof -- at the Defense Department these days. The department's budget planners are still running on hope that congressional and White House negotiators will come to their senses and hammer out a ...
The Senator Who Became a USDA Delivery Man
November 27, 2012 Many's the time that American voters have looked at their senators and representatives in Congress and said, "Why don't you get a real job?" Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., apparently has taken those words to heart. According to the USDA Blog, he played trucker and delivery man for the ...
'Kiss My ...'
November 26, 2012 "Kiss my ass." No doubt many devoted public servants at the federal, state and local levels have longed to issue that response in official correspondence, when confronted by a belligerent, ill-informed or downright racist challenge from a constituent, taxpayer or stakeholder. In 1970, Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley actually did. ...
OMB gets improved ratings from its own employees
November 26, 2012 A push at the Office of Management and Budget to boost the agency's performance in the Office of Personnel Management's annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey has resulted in an across-the-board improvement in employee attitudes. The agency topped the list of most improved organizations across all four human capital categories that ...
Employee morale dips as commitment to mission holds steady
November 21, 2012 Federal employees remain dedicated to their jobs and the missions of their agencies, even as their satisfaction with pay and performance management dips, according to the annual federal employee viewpoint survey. The survey, administered earlier this year by the Office of Personnel Management, showed that 80 percent of employees like ...
As Thanksgiving travelers head out, FAA flight status site goes down
November 21, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Update, 1:57 p.m. ET: The flight status site is back up. As Americans headed out on one of the busiest travel days of the year Wednesday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration's online system for reporting on the status of flights and airport delays was down. Visitors to the FAA's Airport ...
What is Government Really Doing About Cybersecurity?
November 20, 2012 As the threat of hackers, cyber-thieves and fraudsters continues to grow exponentially, federal law enforcement officials have resorted to doing something they're generally not comfortable with -- going public. In a new downloadable special report, Government Executive looks at five key strategies that the law enforcement community is using to ...
Unicorns, Moon Cheese and the EPA
November 19, 2012 Democrats are reading much into the fact that Republicans did not immediately and explicitly rule out passing a bill that would allow tax rates for the highest-earning Americans to go up at the end of the year, National Journal's Dan Friedman reports today. Republicans were quick to respond that their ...
