Tom Temin Commentary
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The D.C. area's senate delegation is taking an interest in cybersecurity beneath the city's streets.
January 29, 2019 -
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.
January 24, 2019 -
National Commission on Military, National and Public Services rolls out ideas amid the longest partial government shutdown ever.
January 22, 2019 -
No matter how we earn a living, ultimately every person has to live by her or his wits.
January 18, 2019 -
The longer the shutdown goes, the more nerves fray. It's downright crabby out there.
January 16, 2019 -
Smartphones and other "cool" gadgets may have killed off what came before them, but now they are starting to show their age.
January 14, 2019 -
The shutdown has created a kaleidoscopic of open, sort-of-open and closed federal operations. As it spins, the effects spread wider and wider.
January 10, 2019 -
Evidence that many feds live paycheck-to-paycheck is not merely anecdotal.
January 08, 2019 -
It doesn't look promising today, but maybe divided government will somehow get the shutdown out of irons.
January 03, 2019 -
If my dinner group can figure it out, why can't the politicians?
December 31, 2018 -
Finally OPM has a home-page link to vital shutdown information.
December 28, 2018 -
We all try to write and publish what you need and like to read about.
December 28, 2018 -
The parties settle in for siege rather than work 'round the clock.
December 24, 2018 -
There's little effect on the public so far, but that will change the longer this partial government shutdown goes on.
December 22, 2018 -
Presidential Rank Awards represent what we hope is the norm for federal service.
December 14, 2018