Tom Temin Commentary
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The inventor of the earliest functioning email protocol, Ray Tomlinson, has died at 74. Published reports say he was not himself particularly addicted to email.
March 09, 2016 -
For the past couple of decades, the nation's cities have become re-entranced with trolleys and streetcars. And the Transportation Department has aided and abetted this desire.
March 07, 2016 -
Thanks to the flawed Choice Act Congress hastily passed in 2014, SESers exist in a sort of twilight of civil service protection.
March 03, 2016 -
The GAO, the administrations who preside over improper payments, the chief financial officers — it's not fair to say they're nonchalant about it. More like inured, numb to the magnitude of it.
March 02, 2016 -
The federal government seems stuck in the second generation of online.
February 29, 2016 -
VA's processes for evaluating people are so messed up that leadership ends up living the legend that you can't do anything about federal employees no matter how badly they perform.
February 26, 2016 -
Give Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he'll agree that in some jobs, feds do earn less than their private sector counterparts.
February 25, 2016 -
Identity thieves often don't care about you. They just want a valid date of birth, address and Social Security number.
February 24, 2016 -
Rep. Chaffetz and his cohorts had been after a scalp for the Great OPM Cybersecurity Breach. Now they have it. Actually it's their second.
February 23, 2016 -
With all of the cybersecurity guidance already out there, is there anything a new commission can add except more weight and complexity?
February 22, 2016 -
I see the FBI-Apple dispute as a cyber version of the "ticking bomb" conundrum: What means are justified to get information from a terrorist when you know there is a bomb ticking somewhere about to kill innocent people?
February 18, 2016 -
One prominent attorney believes MSPB is signaling to Congress it doesn't like the curtailment of employee civil rights.
February 18, 2016 -
While you can make some comparisons, The F-35-as-Edsel is an imperfect analogy. And not a particularly useful one.
February 16, 2016 -
My first thought on seeing the news on my smartphone with near-simultaneous alerts from four major news organizations: Oh, here comes another ugly battle in Washington.
February 15, 2016 -
The discovery demonstrates the ability of government to advance basic research by committing grants to responsible people.
February 12, 2016