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

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

The long-running vacancies at the Merit Systems Protection Board qualifies as 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

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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?

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Is your life’s work a futility?

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

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

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(Photo courtesy of the Census Bureau)

This senior federal scientist works to stop outsourcing

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Dr. Yomaris Pena, Internal Medicine Physician with Somos Community Care at a COVID-19 extracts the last bit of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine out of a vial so as not to waste it at a vaccination site at the Corsi Houses in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. An untold number of Americans have managed to get COVID-19 booster shots even though the U.S. government hasn't approved them. They're doing so by taking advantage of the nation’s vaccine surplus and loose tracking of those who have been fully vaccinated. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

What if you’re not vaccinated but immune anyway?

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Straight talk from the Marine Corps

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Leo Carney

Dude, don’t get pitted in the chunder!

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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?

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Executive orders fail the plain English test

Thousands and thousands of words in two important executive orders fail to add up to clarity.

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Washington, DC: Just a town beneath the stars

How can the resources marshaled to get private citizens into space be marshalled for better human relations on earth?

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telework

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

Mass telework occurred overnight. But policies for post-pandemic telework could take months longer.

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