Tom Temin Commentary
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Everybody take a deep breath. The Plum Book has 4,000 jobs. It always takes months to make a dent.
November 18, 2016 -
Few career feds, level-headed as they tend to be, are heading for the doors just because Donald Trump will be president.
November 15, 2016 -
Presuming you won't be fired, you may nevertheless have trepidation about whomever will come into your agency as leadership after inauguration.
November 11, 2016 -
Had Hillary Clinton won, you in the federal government and we who cover it would have had a fairly clear picture of what would have come next. With Trump, no one can honestly say.
November 09, 2016 -
The last four administrations have recognized the need for constant improvement of the citizen experience. They've devoted people and serious policy-making to cause it to happen.
November 08, 2016 -
Both candidates say they want to build new infrastructure and improve the roads and grids we've already got.
November 07, 2016 -
WMATA, like every transit authority, has always been something of a multi-headed octopus with murky accountability.
November 03, 2016 -
@WhiteHouse has put out more than 27,000 tweets to 12.1 million followers. Soon that account will get a restart.
November 02, 2016 -
A digital services approach won't come from GSA or the White House or any external group. It has to start with program managers and their ability to imagine how digital services could improve what they deliver to their constituents.
November 01, 2016 -
Rather than restating the problem, a lot of people are trying to do something about expanding the cyber workforce.
October 31, 2016 -
The government has made progress in the last 15 years, but it's nowhere near a fully digital model.
October 26, 2016 -
The DOT driverless policy isn't vehicle regulation. That is yet to come. But it has produced controversy.
October 24, 2016 -
You can find a whole chapter on risk management in a genuinely readable new book.
October 21, 2016 -
These episodes occur regularly, but it's always hard to watch.
October 19, 2016 -
Sometimes federal regulators get pulled into pointless investigations.
October 18, 2016