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I follow only one Instagram account, and only sporadically at that, and on my wife’s phone. It’s called “Animals Doing Things.” It shows funny video snippets of animal antics. Unfortunately, it’s grown more and more contrived, as people lure their pets into doing things.
A far more sustaining diet for me is the observation of people doing things. In my work, it’s people doing things in, for or related to the gigantic enterprise known as the U.S. federal government. I’m drawn to the stories of people the general public hasn’t heard of, doing good work of which the public is generally unaware.
Some weeks the impressive ones fall into a particular domain, a bucket with common themes.
Some examples from just the past week cluster around aviation:
Feds are doing things across the spectrum of human activity. Last week I mentioned the irrepressible Vinnie Panizo of USDA, heading up the Feds Feed Families food drive. There’s also Treasury’s Corvelli McDaniel, assistant commissioner for revenue collections management. He engineered a banking mentor-protege program. Large, famous banks signed on to help small, minority-owned ones with managerial, financial and technology expertise. That in turn helps the minority-owned banks strengthen, among other things, their ability to become Treasury financial agents. You want equality in the country? Equal access to capital and sound management are major catalysts.
People doing things, unfortunately, often find themselves working in slightly crazy environments. Most of my Federal Drive guests have been working from home since whenever. Not just federal employees but also the contractors, lawyers, think tankers, analysts and association heads.
Now the federal government is trying to re-establish its offices. That in itself has become chaotic and nasty. To wit, just from yesterday’s headlines:
An atmosphere of zero trust seems to prevail over the whole re-opening effort.
The pandemic has produced a generalized crabbiness evident in many sectors of public life. But golly, with so many people doing things, good things, the federal workplace ought not be one of them.
On November 2, 1868, the then British colony of New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed throughout the colony, and was the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172°30′ East of Greenwich, that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
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Tom Temin is host of the Federal Drive and has been providing insight on federal technology and management issues for more than 30 years.
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Apr 09, 2021 | Close | Change | YTD* | |
---|---|---|---|---|
L Income | 22.7359 | 0.0215 | 1.24% | |
L 2025 | 11.6253 | 0.0224 | 2.55% | |
L 2030 | 40.8198 | 0.101 | 3.18% | |
L 2035 | 12.2344 | 0.033 | 3.46% | |
L 2040 | 46.2070 | 0.1348 | 3.76% | |
L 2045 | 12.6383 | 0.039 | 4.01% | |
L 2050 | 27.6440 | 0.0908 | 4.28% | |
L 2055 | 13.5147 | 0.0548 | 5.47% | |
L 2060 | 13.5146 | 0.0549 | 5.46% | |
L 2065 | 13.5144 | 0.0548 | 5.46% | |
G Fund | 16.5591 | 0.0007 | 0.27% | |
F Fund | 20.5872 | -0.0226 | -3.35% | |
C Fund | 61.7171 | 0.4734 | 6.17% | |
S Fund | 82.1306 | 0.1232 | 7.79% | |
I Fund | 37.5654 | 0.0048 | 3.52% | |
Closing price updated at approx 6pm ET each business day. More at tsp.gov * YTD data is updated on the last day of the month. |
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