Archive: December 7, 2008 - December 13, 2008
Personnel Advice for Obama
Folks at The Washington Post sometimes refer to a main competitor as “the other paper.” Well the other paper, aka The New York Times, has an interesting op-ed article today by Thomas A. Schweich, who teaches law at Washington University...
By Steven E. Levingston | December 12, 2008; 2:45 PM ET | Comments (0)
Education Department Rebuttal
Funny how upset people can get just because you call their agency a goat. An Education Department spokesman wasn’t pleased with that description in my Dec. 2 column about a Government Accountability Office report on the lack of diversity in...
By Steven E. Levingston | December 11, 2008; 5:09 PM ET | Comments (0)
Fixing the Contracting System
One of the nice things about having a blog is I get to provide readers more information than I can get into the newspaper column. Today’s Federal Diary, for example, deals with low-wage government contractors, but one thing I didn’t...
By Steven E. Levingston | December 10, 2008; 1:05 PM ET | Comments (2)
Awards for Pentagon Inspector General's Office
AP writer Richard Lardner says: Three top executives in the office of the Pentagon inspector general received cash awards of about $30,000 for outstanding leadership even though their agency has a history of weak management and strained relations between employees...
By Steven E. Levingston | December 8, 2008; 12:06 PM ET | Comments (0)
