This Saturday, Code for America will be hosting another Iconathon in the City of Boston! Held in collaboration with The Noun Project, Boston’s event will focus on designing new icons for Education: schools, buses, books, pencils — anything we can think of, anything that’ll lead to useful and beautiful symbols for the public domain. We’reRead… Read more »
I enjoy idioms and the richness of our culture that creates them—and none seems more apt for our current situation than “it is time to face the music.” We have long since passed this point and the current litany of woes facing our country can be traced back to our collective reluctance to face theRead… Read more »
The American Federation of Government Employees Federal Law Enforcement Committee announced today that Officer Douglas Deese has been selected as AFGE’s Officer of the Year. As a member of Local 1101, Officer Deese served as Conservation Officer with the Department of the Army on Fort Richardson for three years, and currently is a Lead PoliceRead… Read more »
Veterans, As a recently retired Sergeant Major in the U.S. ARMY with over 31 Year of service I am priviledged and honored to continue to serve Veterans in their quest for employment. My mission in life is to share my knowledge and experiences with Veterans, and simply to help all Veterans GET EMPLOYED!!! If youRead… Read more »
We all ask a lot of questions, but do we ask the right questions? In the right way? To the right person? At the right time? Who would have thought asking questions would be such an involved process, but it is. Particularly in government, where we deal with bosses, managers, supervisors, and colleagues in differentRead… Read more »
Courtney Minick, Esq., of Justia has posted Universal Citation for State Codes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Tim Stanley of Justia is a member of our community. In this post, Ms. Minick criticizes traditional U.S. legal citation standards for reinforcing major commercial publishers’ dominant positionsRead… Read more »
If there were a key for ideas…maybe we would listen better. “We talk about innovation constantly, but step outside the chain of command and you get your hand slapped with the reminder that ‘You can’t understand the politics involved.’ The key to innovation is really believing that everyone has a worthwhile perspective — not sayingRead… Read more »
The profile for @DODASSMC reads: “The Army’s Director of Online and Social Media Division coordinates these monthly meetings for professional development and networking of DOD social media folks.” For the past two months, I’ve had the pleasure of addressing that group, and I’ve come to realize that it’s time for me to embrace (resurrect?) myRead… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but I was kind of bummed when NASA decided that the moon wasn’t cool enough to keep going to. I guess it’s like any vacation locale… you go enough times and it just loses it’s luster. NASA has said it is not focusing it’s efforts on landing on Mars. MarsRead… Read more »
It seems well overdue but the head of the ATF and a pair of district attorneys have gotten the boot (call it resignations or a force out) after a Congressional investigation and appearances in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform finally forced the issue. It’s tough to avoid the story, again,Read… Read more »