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On His Final Daily Show Appearance, Obama Touts Feds, Efficient Government
The president also cites budget shortfalls, "creaky bureaucracy" at VA.
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What Actions Can Seaside Jurisdictions Take to Ward Off Shark Attacks?
From drone monitoring in California to controversial fishing restrictions in North Carolina, authorities try to keep the public safe from danger in the water.
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Here’s Your Chance to Vote Someone On To Government’s All-Star Team
The Service to America Medals have added a new People’s Choice category.
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Saga Continues for Top City Official in Hot Water Over Michelle Obama ‘Gorilla’ Comments
The mayor of Airway Heights, Washington, refuses to resign but deleted his Facebook page, calling it “the Devil’s tool.”
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Is Post-Breach Credit Monitoring Useful? Lawmakers Ask GAO to Review
The use of such services has become routine as the number of data breaches in both government and the private sector has ratcheted up.
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Jeh Johnson Says He'll Stop Checking Gmail from Work, 'Probably Should Have Done It Sooner'
Johnson addressed reports that he and his senior staffers were using work computers to check private webmail accounts.
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Were Background Investigations Falsified During the OPM Hack?
Administration will not confirm or deny it has verified the integrity of 21.5 million compromised records.
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Getting Debt-Ridden Harrisburg Back on the Right Track Hasn’t Been Easy
“I would certainly hope to believe that this is the moment that the city has stabilized and begun to rebuild itself,” Mayor Eric Papenfuse says in an interview.
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Treasury Taps 18F to Craft New $10 Bill's Digital Strategy
GSA's tech fix-it team advised the Treasury on getting the public to speak up about the redesign.
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States Rethink Laws Denying the Vote to Felons
Election laws disenfranchise 5.9 million felons, but many states are rethinking those rules.
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Hackers Enter UCLA Health and Expose Carl’s Jr. Model, While Worker Leaks National Guard Data
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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OPM Changes Privacy Rules to Let Investigators Inside All Databases
About 40 systems, holding medical files and complaint records, among other things, are affected by the policy change.
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Does Seattle’s Trash Monitoring Violate Privacy Rights?
The city’s ban on the disposal of food scraps and other compostables with garbage is met with a lawsuit.
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White House Wants Agencies to Prioritize Emerging Tech in Next Year’s Budget
Nanotechnology, robotics and cyber-physical systems get a shout-out in the budget memo.
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Michigan Lawmakers Proceed on ‘Ice Cream Month’ Declaration; Breakaway City Plan in Louisiana on Hold
Also: The Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s traffic cone defensive move and Denver isn’t responsible for Red Rocks injuries.
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There’s A Plan to Immediately Purge Some Governmentwide Network Surveillance Data
Destruction could free up storage space and have the added benefit of protecting privacy.
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Why It Still Sucks to Be a CIO in Government and What a New Law Can Do About It
While CIOs claim the “chief” title, in many cases their hands have been tied by sprawling bureaucratic structures and a lack of institutional heft.
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With Puerto Rico on Fiscal Brink, Senators Introduce Chapter 9 Bill to ‘Avert Disaster’
U.S. Sens. Blumenthal and Schumer co-sponsor legislation to expand the bankruptcy code for the commonwealth.
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