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FILE - In this April 26, 2021 file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities in July and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Will feds get The Vaccine — or sue instead?

Vaccine mandates don’t and can’t cover everyone, so how do you deal with the unvaccinated?

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Executive orders fail the plain English test

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Washington, DC: Just a town beneath the stars

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Common sense is great. Will it apply to telework policy?

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How’d you get that job anyhow?

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DoD sticks the (inevitable) fork in JEDI

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FILE- In this Aug. 19, 2015, file photo the Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington. The prolonged government shutdown couldn’t come at a worse time for the Internal Revenue Service. The tax filing season is opening soon. And for taxpayers, payments for those who owe Uncle Sam likely will still be due April 15, but people due refunds could see a delay if the partial shutdown persists. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

How the IRS can advance from wreckage of 2021 filing season

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Fluttering silk flag of United States of America. Old Glory in the wind, colorful background

Working through the pandemic — how great was that!

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Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja during her virtual oath of office ceremony on June 24, 2021.

But will new OPM director get the snow day calls right?

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Leo Carney

Industry runs back to the office while the government threads its shoelaces

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Rep. William Clinger was a giant in federal IT acquisition

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Internal Revenue Service sign with a traffic signal in the foreground indicating a red light.

For IRS employees, a five-alarm fire

If tax files of the rich were released by an IRS insider, the agency has a problem on its hands.

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This senior federal scientist works to stop outsourcing

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

Federal Report

Retired U.S.Army veteran Bill MacCully walks among flag-covered graves in the Veterans Cemetery of Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Memorial Day comes yearly, yet recalls life’s unpredictability

The holiday’s precise origins are disputed, but its unifying idea can get buried by car sales and cookouts.

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