Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
Attention Veterans: If I can reach at least one of you, I’ll feel that I’ve succeeded. If you were part of the previous “stop-loss” policy, you may be eligible for retroactive bonus pay. See this article at the Washington Post, and register on-line at: http://www.defense.gov/stoploss. This is not a gimmick, and the amount of bonus [...]
Tomorrow, Scott Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), is scheduled to be sentenced before Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson. Bloch has pleaded guilty to one count of criminal contempt of Congress for not disclosing the nature and extent of his instructions that a private company erase files from his government-issued computer and [...]
From: Parker, Bernard [mailto:Bernard.Parker@mspb.gov] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:36 PM To: democracy@civilservicechange.org Subject: MSPB’s Response to Your FOIA Request Dated June 23, 2010 Ms. Charlotte Yee 39120 Argonaut Way 305 Fremont, CA 94538 FOIA Tracking No. CB10 – 303 Dear Ms. Yee: This is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), request [...]
Well, I wasn’t exactly sleeping. I was working. I was working hard. I will one day tell the long amazing story of a small community and a friend who had not just the courage and determination to save her public schools, but the know-how too. In any case, the short story is here. The Cupertino community raised [...]
Obama met with Stanley McChrystal for 1/2 hour, then replaced him with General Petraeus. Right move. More on it here, at CNN. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fcivilservicechange.org%2F%3Fp%3D2850′; addthis_title = ‘That%26%238217%3Bs+MY+President.+++McChrystal+Has+Been+Replaced.’; addthis_pub = ”;
. . .allow him to ”resign.” Anyone who can’t treat his superiors well, doesn’t treat his subordinates well either. Your senior administration official put it best when he said, that this is “about the culture of his command organization.” I don’t like how he dissed members of your administration. By standing up for them, you stand up [...]
The database of salaries for individual federal employees has been updated to Fiscal Year 2009. Ashbury Press is the publisher, and here’s the link: http://php.app.com/fed_employees10/search.php addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fcivilservicechange.org%2F%3Fp%3D2765′; addthis_title = ‘Updated+Salaries+of+Federal+Employees+%26%238211%3B+Fiscal+Year+2009′; addthis_pub = ”;
A strong, independent civil service is one of the dominant themes of this website, and is an essential component to the proper functioning of any society. Over the last 30 years an anti-government ideology has predominated in numerous leadership circles, and has been reflected in the beliefs of a broad swath of the American populace. [...]
The three-member Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) under the new leadership of Susan Tsui Grundmann is doing its best despite the fact that it has one of the toughest jobs around. The Board is tasked with changing governmental culture not only at its own agency, but in all federal agencies. Yesterday, MSPB AJ Franklin Kang [...]
By now you’ve heard that Elena Kagan, currently the U.S. Solicitor General, has been selected as Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court. I took a look at the pundits’ view of his choice, and it appears that Obama hit the jackpot: neither the liberal left nor the conservative right is jumping for joy. Obama is [...]