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NEWS: June 23, 2010
City to Outsource Everything Maywood, a working-class community south of downtown Los Angeles facing a $450,000 deficit, plans to lay off all of its employees, disband its police department and turn over all of its municipal operations to a neighboring city. Only the city manager, city attorney and elected officials would remain. MORE: Los Angeles Times Public Officials | The Nation NLRB Deal Clears 64 Executive Nominees The Senate confirmed 64 executive nominees by unanimous consent after reaching a deal over National Labor Relations Board appointees that had stalled other confirmations. MORE: CongressDaily Cleveland Schools' CEO Gets Three More Years The Cleveland school board added three years to Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders' $263,000-a-year contract, extending the agreement through June 2014. MORE: Cleveland Plain Dealer Georgia County Official in Trouble over Racy E-Mails Forsyth County, Ga., Planning Director Jeff Chance is on administrative leave while officials review thousands of his e-mails that include photos of naked women, bedroom talk and lewd jokes. MORE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Digital License Plates Could Carry Advertising California may become to first state to mix advertising with its citizens' vehicles. Lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the Department of Motor Vehicles to begin researching the use of advertising-enabled digital license plates as a way to generate revenue for the state. MORE: Government Technology Feds' IT Spending Forecast to Hit $122 Billion Despite government belt-tightening, federal spending on information technology is expected to rise by more than 5 percent annually over the next five years, hitting $122 billion by 2015, according to a new report by the market-research firm INPUT. MORE: Federal Times Feds to Spend Billions on Cybersecurity Research As the Obama administration and Congress propose various measures to improve the nation's cybersecurity, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is planning to spend "multiple billions of dollars" on cybersecurity research. MORE: Washington Technology Public Safety | Michigan Appeals Court Blocks Militia Members' Release A federal appeals court reversed a judge's decision ordering the release of five members of the Hutaree, a Christian militia group that prosecutors said plotted the violent overthrow of the government and killings of law-enforcement officers. MORE: Detroit Free Press
Big E-Tailers at Odds on Dropping Saturday Mail Lawmakers will hear split views on proposed cuts in Saturday mail delivery from two of the leading online retailers and largest customers of the U.S. Postal Service. Representatives of Amazon.com call delivery cuts "a bad idea," while Netflix says cuts would have little, if any, impact on its subscribers. MORE: Washington Post Six Accused of Cheating USPS Out of $18.6 Million Six Houston-area people face federal charges that they cheated the U.S. Postal Service out of $18.6 million by using counterfeit meters for four years at their mass-mailing businesses, including one that mailed for the Harris County tax assessor. MORE: Houston Chronicle Immigration | The Southwest 1,000 More Border Patrollers Sought The Obama administration is asking Congress for money to expand the Border Patrol by 1,000 agents, add scores of other federal law enforcement officers and deploy two more aerial drones as part of heightened security at the Mexican border. MORE: New York Times Mexico Asks U.S. Court to Block Arizona Law Mexico asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that Mexico's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake. MORE: Associated Press/Arizona Republic Politics | Utah Court Backs E-Signatures for Petitions The Utah Supreme Court validated the use of electronic signatures in the election process, a first-of-its-kind decision that could have broad implications in Utah and the rest of the nation. The court said Lt. Gov. Greg Bell overstepped his authority in rejecting electronic signatures for gubernatorial hopeful Farley Anderson. MORE: Deseret News More news, analysis, resources and events: GovManagement.com |
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
“Carly has been a public figure for a very long time and, as every public figure knows, sometimes unfortunately that comes along with inappropriate interest from unsavory characters.” A spokeswoman for California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, on the permit to carry a concealed Glock 9mm pistol held by Fiorina's husband Frank Fiorina, who occasionally doubles as the former Hewlett-Packard CEO's bodyguard San Francisco Chronicle | More quotes DATAPOINT UPCOMING |
