Tom Temin Commentary

Government has the job of being an honest broker of information, if agencies can stay open to issue it.

The most important thing is usable information that’s easy to find. Some agencies fall short.

Tom Temin outlines why recent cloud strategies released by the Defense Department read more like a way of backing into what the department has already been doing in cloud computing.

Our survey reveals a sense of resentment of the furloughed by those forced to work.

The D.C. area’s senate delegation is taking an interest in cybersecurity beneath the city’s streets.

If the lawsuits over the 2018-2019 shutdown go the way of the last one, the money for damages should come faster than in 2013.

National Commission on Military, National and Public Services rolls out ideas amid the longest partial government shutdown ever.

No matter how we earn a living, ultimately every person has to live by her or his wits.

The longer the shutdown goes, the more nerves fray. It’s downright crabby out there.

Smartphones and other “cool” gadgets may have killed off what came before them, but now they are starting to show their age.

The shutdown has created a kaleidoscopic of open, sort-of-open and closed federal operations. As it spins, the effects spread wider and wider.

Evidence that many feds live paycheck-to-paycheck is not merely anecdotal.

It doesn’t look promising today, but maybe divided government will somehow get the shutdown out of irons.

If my dinner group can figure it out, why can’t the politicians?