Tom Temin Commentary

Dr. Sheena Zent

A Medicare idea you can sink your teeth into

Retirement can be a lot less fun if your teeth fall out and you can’t bite into an apple.

Federal Report

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2001 file photo, Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84. (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert)

A great leader exits the scene; Metro leaves the tracks

Tom Temin Commentary

Why that 5.9% COLA is bad news

Federal Report

(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2003 file photo, Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the U.S. Army Fourth Infantry Division gestures during a news conference in Tikrit, about 180 kms. (112 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and coalition forces in Iraq at the height of the war and capped a 39-year career by serving as the Army's chief of staff, has died, his family said Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. He was 67. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

General Ray Odierno: An appreciation

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, in this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, file photo. Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 -- and if regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Vaccine mandate: Soft picture with hard edges

Federal Report

Late Apple chief provided lesson in leadership

Commentary

Executive orders fail the plain English test

Federal Report

Merit Systems Protection Board, files, seal, stack, papers

The Senate and the MSPB: It’s a scandal!

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Department of Justice sign, Washington DC, USA. Many law enforcement agencies are administered by the DOJ, including the FBI, DEA and Federal Bureau of Prisons

How two employees can call a whole agency into question

Tom Temin Commentary

FILE - In this March 26, 2021, file photo a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup in Philadelphia. Religious objections, once used only sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-19 shot. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal contractor forecast: Cloudy with a chance of needles

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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2020, file photo, mourners place flowers in the name cut-out of Kyung Hee (Casey) Cho at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. A U.S. Army soldier was arrested Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City's 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack U.S. soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

A Tuesday like no other: Did it really change everything?

Federal Report

Is your life’s work a futility?

Maybe the mission ended or didn’t work out, but don’t say those who worked in Afghanistan worked in futility.

Federal Report

An MQ-9A Reaper assigned to the 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron sits on the ramp at Creech Air Force Base carrying eight Hellfire missiles. This was the first flight test of the MQ-9 carrying eight Hellfire missiles.

(U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Haley Stevens)

DoD brings a knife to a gunfight

Specialized missile shows what fast, cheap modifications can buy for an increasingly costly military.

Tom Temin Commentary

This senior federal scientist works to stop outsourcing

Census Bureau computer scientist works to keep crucial functions away from outsourcing.

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