Tag: federal government

July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court in recent days has issued a series of rulings that collectively have the potential to neuter a broad array of federal agencies, or tie them up in endless litigation that prevents them from carrying out their missions. […]

August 31, 2023

The Department of Defense is at the bottom of the list of federal agencies for satisfaction with IT support and IT equipment according to a survey of more than 270,000 federal employees released Wednesday. The news should come as no […]

July 11, 2023

In Alameda, an island located in the San Francisco Bay, there’s an old federal maritime training center built in 1942 that has been sitting vacant for years. For almost as long, residents there have been batting around ideas for what […]

June 27, 2023

Hybrid work has dramatically reduced the number of people working in downtown Washington, D.C., to the detriment of the Metro public transit system, small businesses, and the District’s vitality as a whole. Equally clear is the federal government’s outsized impact […]

May 12, 2023

Thousands of women living in rural, eastern Maryland have few options when they’re looking for someone to deliver their babies. The local hospital doesn’t have an obstetrics doctor on staff so most women in this region, flanked by sprawling farm […]

February 8, 2023

House Republicans questioned former Twitter executives Wednesday about the platform’s handling of reporting on Hunter Biden, the president’s son, fulfilling a party promise to investigate what they have long asserted is anti-conservative bias at social media companies. Three former executives […]

February 2, 2023

The federal government and several state-level entities have spent years trying to impose a new tax on drivers that would charge them for each mile driven, but a new bill from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., aims to shut down that […]

January 11, 2023

The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month, starting the clock on an expected standoff between President Joe Biden and the new House Republican majority that will test […]

December 29, 2022

Almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places considered urban based on revised criteria. Around 3.5 million residents living in […]

December 6, 2022

The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put pressure on officials to keep their word and to restore funding […]

November 30, 2022

In the past two years, we have seen the cybersecurity world forced to “grow up” quickly. The approach to security in the supply chain has been especially prominent, requiring fast-tracked solutions to successfully align with accelerating official mandates and recommendations. […]

November 16, 2022

Using old shipping containers isn’t a permanent or effective solution to secure the southern border, as state and Yuma officials know. Now, the political stunt is embroiled in a legal battle with the federal government. In August, Gov. Doug Ducey […]

October 27, 2022

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on Thursday endorsed and plans to campaign for Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, the first time that the critic of former President Donald Trump, who lost her GOP primary, has crossed party lines to formally support […]

October 25, 2022

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough to fight climate change, according to a new poll that shows limited public awareness about a sweeping new law that commits the U.S. to its largest ever investment […]

July 13, 2022

A good government group on Wednesday released its annual analysis of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, finding that across government, employee engagement and satisfaction fell 4.5 points from 2020 to 2021. Unlike the Office of Personnel Management, which pointed to […]

June 16, 2022

The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering. The revisions could […]

June 2, 2022

The federal government is augmenting its efforts to counter organized retail crime, which leads to almost $70 billion in losses per year. Organized retail crime is the large-scale theft targeting retailers with the goal to resell the items for profit […]

May 27, 2022

To say the U.S. federal government has made significant digital strides in recent years would be an understatement. As one of the few industries responsible for managing an overabundance of sensitive data and mission-critical applications that hundreds of millions of […]

April 25, 2022

It should be the “norm” for federal data to be broken down or disaggregated by ethnicity, race, gender, disability, income level, veteran status or other demographics, Biden administration officials said recently. That is one of the many recommendations from a […]

April 14, 2022

The Justice Department is improving language access to its programs to help people with limited English proficiency better report crimes. The Interior Department is providing technical assistance to Native American tribes to help them apply for grants. The Energy Department […]