Join us for our next Confab call on Thursday, February 23rd from 1:00 to 2:30 EST. This month’s featured NCDDers are Tina Nabatchi and Cynthia Farrar, who will be talking to us about their 2011 report “Bridging the Gap between Public Officials and the Public.” Tina and Cynthia’s 2011 report for the Deliberative Democracy ConsortiumRead… Read more »
Secretary Ray LaHood writes about the role of mobile applications in empowering transit riders with the information they need to make travel decisions. Original post
A NYC man has found a way to turn discarded MetroCards into cash. He collects the cards, bundles them into single $5 cards, and resells them for $4. Original post
Cyber practitioners have long wondered when this would happen. Now it has. The President of the United States has finally realized that the threat from malicious actors in cyberspace has grown so significant that it bears mentioning in the State of the Union Address. In his January 24, 2012 State of the Union Address PresidentRead… Read more »
The Washington Post Fed Page is teaming up with GovLoop in 2012 to bring one of our long-standing print features, the Federal Worker page question of the week, to the Federal Eye blog and out onto the social Web.We want opinions from members of the federal workforce, both to help inform our coverage and toRead… Read more »
New mobile form factor, tablets, surged over the holidays. According to Pew Internet and American Life project, The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped fromRead… Read more »
Tonight’s State of the Union Address raised even less transparency issues than we expected. (See the text at the end of this post.) President Obama called for a ban on insider trading in Congress, and proposes to ban lobbyists from bundling contributions, and to ban bundlers from lobbying. The insider trading ban is a proposalRead… Read more »
This is part three of a four post series regarding Ken Miller’s great book Extreme Government Makeover. In Part 1 we learned that government is like a house in that most of the important work goes on in pipes hidden from public view behind walls. The problem with improving the performance of government does notRead… Read more »
As we now let the eloquent words of President Barack Obama sink in about the state of our country and our plans for the future, I can’t help but think about the true example of leadership this poses for all Americans. Forget about all the party line rhetoric, the purpose of this message was toRead… Read more »
As House Republicans reopen efforts Wednesday to win approval for the Keystone XL energy project, new lobbying records filed over the weekend reveal a lopsided spending battle over the controversial proposed pipeline. The Keystone pipeline has become an emblematic fight for those who see the pipeline as a North American job creator versus those whoRead… Read more »