Tom Temin Commentary
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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 -
The Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons operates with a complex stew of issues affecting prisoners and guards alike.
December 11, 2018 -
Task Force offers both new and old ideas for fixing the cash-poor Postal Service.
December 06, 2018 -
Now higher on the intellectual property theft food chain are industrial products and integrated circuits, which can weaken national security.
December 05, 2018 -
AI research aims not just for brain-like intelligence but also the brain's low power requirements.
November 29, 2018