| View this newsletter as a Web page | Subscribe to this newsletter | Recent editions | Advertising information |
 |
|
|
NEWS: March 5, 2012 Education | The Detroit Region Co-Management Set for Struggling School Systems The troubled Detroit public-school district will co-manage the fiscally foundering Highland Park schools for the next four months under a new agreement signed by the emergency managers for the two schools systems and state Treasurer Andy Dillon aimed at allowing Highland Park students to finish the school year in their schools. >> Detroit Free Press Los Angeles Mayor: Treat City Like a State for Education Los Angeles should be treated more like a state when it comes to education, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Department of Education to give the city special treatment on Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers. >> Los Angeles Times Efficiency | The Nation At Age 9, DHS Still Struggling to Fix Its Systems The patient is getting better but is still weak. That's what a House subcommittee found in a checkup of the Department of Homeland Security's efforts, nine years after its creation, to get off the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list by overhauling its acquisition, human-resources and financial-management systems. >> Federal News Radio
Liquor-Privatization Measure Gets Partial OK from Judge A Cowlitz County judge upheld most of a voter-approved initiative that requires the state to get out of the business of selling liquor to consumers, but called for a trial to determine whether the inclusion of a provision to provide $10 million a year to enhance public safety caused voters to approve a measure they otherwise would have rejected. >> Seattle Times The Military | The Nation Senators: Overhaul Wartime Contracting Two Democratic senators say they want to infuse accountability into overseas contingency contracting with a new bill that would require the Defense Department and other agencies to improve their planning and oversight of wartime contracting and require automatic suspensions of contractors accused of wrongdoing. >> Federal News Radio V.A. Pushed to Trademark 'GI Bill' The phrase "GI Bill" should be trademarked by the Department of Veterans Affairs so it cannot be used in deceptive marketing by for-profit colleges, 14 Democratic senators recommended. >> Federal Times Air Force Considers Junking Personal Computers The Air Force could send personal computers to the junkyard by 2014, depending on the results of a study to replace them with more than 1.2 million "thin client" terminals that access remote servers. >> Nextgov
Generous Cash-Outs Must End, Declares Turnpike's New Chief When the Ohio Turnpike's chief engineer retired last year after three decades with the toll road, he collected $287,000. Turnpike officials hailed Dan Castrigano's job performance. But the turnpike's new executive director, Richard Hodges, says he has been stunned by the amounts of unused sick and vacation pay turnpike workers can accumulate and then cash out when they leave--and that those policies must change. >> Cleveland Plain Dealer Soaring Denver DMV Wait Times to End Furloughs With wait times soaring at Denver's Division of Motor Vehicle branches, Mayor Michael Hancock announced that he will suspend remaining furlough days for DMV workers and said the 2012 budget will allow about 10 more employees to be hired. >> Seattle Times Human Services | Colorado State May Ease Rules for Child-Abuse Investigations Barely two weeks after state officials announced a plan to reduce the number of children who die after entering the state's child-welfare program, the same agency began work to relax rules dictating when caseworkers must investigate reports of abuse and neglect. >> Denver Post
Board: Airport CEO's Hiring Was Illegal The board that hired and then fired Turkia Awada Mullin as CEO of Detroit's Metro Airport last year now claims in a court filing that it broke the law when it hired her. The Wayne County Airport Authority hopes the admission will get it off the hook for the more than $700,000 that Mullin says she is owed in severance. >> Detroit Free Press Maryland County Exec Accused of Misusing Police Detail Anne Arundel County, Md., Executive John R. Leopold was indicted on misdemeanor charges of using his taxpayer-funded police detail to help secure his re-election, run personal errands, keep his affair with a county employee private and drive him to sexual rendezvous. >> Baltimore Sun Durham County D.A. Removed from Office A Superior Court judge ordered Durham County, N.C., District Attorney Tracey Cline removed from office, finding that she made false and reckless accusations against the county's senior judge whom she accused of "moral turpitude, dishonesty and corruption." >> Durham Herald-Sun Camden's First Black Mayor Dies Melvin R. "Randy" Primas Jr., the first African American mayor of Camden, N.J., and a prominent force for decades in the city's recovery efforts, died at the age of 62 after battling cancer. >> Philadelphia Inquirer
Mint Banks on Big Sales for Star-Spangled Banner Coin The popularity of a commemorative coin can be a hit-or-miss affair, but certain symbols tend to do well. Officials at the U.S. Mint are confident that Star-Spangled Banner coins being released today in honor of the bicentennial of the War of 1812 will be a success. Sales of the coins could raise up to $8.5 million for the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission. >> Washington Post >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
|
Public Policy | George F. Will An Honored Prophet The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century understood America's unending argument about how freedom both depends on government and is threatened by it. James Q. Wilson, who died Friday at the age of 80, also understood that although social science cannot tell us what to do, it can tell us what is not working. Voracious for learning, eloquent in advocacy and amiable in disputation, Wilson was a prophet honored in his own country. >> Washington Post James Q. Wilson's Legacy to New York City Most people in New York City probably have never heard the name James Q. Wilson. But all New Yorkers owe a debt to Wilson, who along with George Kelling developed the "broken windows" crime-fighting theory. >> New York Post | More commentaries QUOTABLE “They're good people who can do more than they're attempting to accomplish.” U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, saying he will sponsor legislation to jostle members of the federal Senior Executive Service out of their "comfort zones" in the wake of a report finding that nearly half of the top federal executives had never changed positions, contrary to what Congress envisioned when it created the SES in 1978 >> Federal News Radio | More quotes DATAPOINT $31 billion Amount that was added to the national economy by visitor spending in communities surrounding national parks in 2010, supporting more than 258,000 jobs, an increase of $689 million and 11,500 jobs from the previous year, according to a Michigan State University study released by the National Park Service >> The Missoulian | More data UPCOMING American Enterprise Institute Speech and discussion: "A New Mission for the Fed" Today, 12:30-2:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Ascendant Strategy Management Group Mission-Driven Management Summit March 6-8, Washington, D.C. Center for American Progress Discussion: "Collective Impact: Moving the Needle on Our Nation's Challenges" March 6, noon-1:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Urban Institute Discussion: "Unemployment Insurance for Tomorrow's Economy" March 6, noon-1:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Discussion: "Campaign 2012: Strategies for Economic Growth" March 7, 10-11:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Center for American Progress and Half in Ten Discussion: "Combating Veteran Unemployment, Poverty and Homelessness with Smart Budget Choices" March 7, 10-11 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Government Technology magazine Teleconference: "Automate the Capture of Handwritten Forms with Intelligent Extraction Technologies" March 7, 1 p.m. ET GovLoop and Bloomberg Government Webinar: "How to Streamline and Improve the Federal Government Acquisition Process" March 8, 2 p.m. ET American Federation of Teachers National Higher Education Issues Conference March 9-11, Washington, D.C. National League of Cities Congressional City Conference March 10-14, Washington, D.C. Federal Managers Association National Convention March 11-14, Arlington, Va. Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Workshop: "Making Smart Cuts: Leveraging IT to Improve Government During a Time of Austerity" March 14, 8:30 a.m.-noon ET, Washington, D.C. American Enterprise Institute Discussion: "Inventing the Future: What's Next for Patent Reform?" March 14, 12:30-2 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program on Driving Government Performance: Leadership Strategies that Produce Results March 18-23, Cambridge, Mass. Environmental Council of the States Spring Meeting March 19-21, Austin, Texas Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials National Tanks Conference March 19-21, St. Louis National Association of State Treasurers Legislative Conference March 19-22, Washington, D.C. National Lieutenant Governors Association Federal-State Relations Meeting March 21-23, Washington, D.C. National Contract Management Association Aerospace and Defense Contract Management Conference March 22-23, Austin, Texas >> Full events listings |
