Government

The Fed's New Transparency: Too Much information?

Richard Barrington | Posted 02.09.2012 | Business

Read More: Personal Finance, Federal Reserve, Money Market Rates, Credit Card, Government, Gdp, Economy, Money, Fomc, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Business News

A series of inaccurate forecasts could make people doubt the ability of the FOMC. Opinions on the new reporting detail will vary, but ultimately the verdict may lay in the hands of whoever eventually succeeds Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman.

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Elections Are for Suckers

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.09.2012 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Government, Corruption, Speech, Barack Obama, Money, Mccain, Super PACs, Obama, Democracy, Campaign, Israel, Democrats, Fundraising, Wall Street Bonuses, Election, Republicans, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Politics News

Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. What other word should we use to describe this year's presidential election, whose outcome will turn on which party's Super PACs gets the most generous bribes from billionaires?

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Detroit Citizens Key to Defining the Council Districts

Gary A. Brown | Posted 02.07.2012 | Detroit

Read More: Government, Redistricting, Districts, City Council, Town Halls, Detroit City Council, Detroit City Council Districts, Detroit, Detroit Redistricting, Detroit News

Typically, when re-drawing boundaries, legislators -- local, state and federal -- create districts and then present them to the public as a final product. My colleagues and I desired a more open process.

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The Government's Secret War Against Small Business

Robert Levin | Posted 02.07.2012 | Small Business

Read More: Taxes, Government, Small Business, Tax Audits, Tax Laws, Accountants, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Small Business Taxes, Cpa, Accounting, Small Business America, Small Business News

State tax auditors are being told to shake down local businesses to generate revenue. And while big businesses have internal tax specialists who can fight unjustified assessments, small businesses often have no choice but to pay since the cost to them of fighting back is so high.

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Aneesh Chopra Steps Down as U.S. CTO After Major Contributions

Craig Newmark | Posted 02.06.2012 | Impact

Read More: Government, Technology, Barack Obama, Hard Work, Impact News

Hey, I've worked with Aneesh for a coupla years, and bear witness that he's the real deal, and has done a lot for the country, serving citizens well a...

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Gov 2.0 LA 2012 Speakers

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 02.03.2012 | Technology

Read More: Government, Politics, Social Media, Twitter, Participatory Democracy, Storify, gov20la, Alan W. Silberberg, Media, Technology, Livestream, Gov 2.0, Technology News

www.gov20la.com The speaker list for Gov 2.0 L.A. 2012 is out: @nigelcameron Nigel Cameron thinking | speaking | tweeting | blogging || future |...

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The Joke Is on Us: Super PACs, Money and Democracy

Dan Glickman | Posted 01.27.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Supreme Court, Politics, Super Pac, Congress, Jon Stewart, Super PACs, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Obama, Colbert Super Pac, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Super PACs only serve to enrich broadcasters and worse, relentlessly assault Americans with negativity and the ugly side of politics.

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U.S. v. Jones: Fourth Amendment Privacy Certainly Not "Dead," But How Do We Deal With It?

Christina Gagnier | Posted 01.24.2012 | Technology

Read More: Government, Illegal Search and Seizure, Supreme Court, Gps, Fourth Amendment, Technology, Privacy, United States v Jones, Us vs Jones, Technology News

Privacy and its treatment in the civil context, particularly what society's view of the "reasonable expectation of privacy" is, will most certainly be shaped by society's use of technology and how it interacts with platforms like Facebook or Google.

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States Should Maintain Role in Nuclear Oversight

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 01.24.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Vermont, Energy, Vermont Yankee, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Governor, Nuclear Safety, Politics News

Governors have the responsibility to protect the safety of their citizens. If the plant accidentally releases radiation, the governor takes immediate action, ordering an evacuation, issuing iodine pills. But the governor had no power to prevent an accident in the first place.

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'The Pruitt Igoe Myth' Finds Architecture's Big Flop Was Somebody Else's Fault

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Video, The Pruitt Igoe Myth, St. Louis, Public Housing, Urban Planning, Architecture, White Flight, Documentaries, Race, Movies, Politics News

The images of its destruction are some of the most iconic in all of modern architecture. Less than 20 years after they went up, the towers of the Prui...

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Let The Mud Fly: Read Texas Dems' 500-Page Rick Perry Opposition Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.19.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Running for the 2008 GOP nomination, John McCain's campaign team pulled together 200 pages of dirt on his 2008 rival Mitt Romney, posted...

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Gov 2.0 Crashes in Election 2012

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 01.16.2012 | Politics

Read More: Electoral Politics, Gov 2.0, Gov 3.0, Youtube, Politics, Ron Paul, Social Media, Mitt Romney, Twitter, Alan W. Silberberg, Election 2012, Government, Facebook, Barack Obama, Politics News

Many people may not be familiar with Gov 2.0 but with all the current electioneering going on, we need to pause for a moment to see where a lot of this energy and technology is getting its base from. There are some excellent examples of where Gov 2.0 has crossed into electoral politics.

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NYC's Digital Roadmap: 2011 in Review

Rachel Sterne | Posted 01.12.2012 | New York

Read More: Foursquare, Digital Media, Twitter, Mayor Bloomberg, New York City, Facebook, Hackathon, Tumblr, Transparency, Government, O'Reilly Media, Civic Engagement, City Government, Open Government, Digital, Mayor's Office, Technology, Video, New York News

In July 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Commissioner Katherine Oliver announced that the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment would include NYC Digital. Last January, NYC Digital launched and we hit the ground running.

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Happy Birthday, Common Sense

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.12.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Pamphleteer, Thomas Paine, Pamphlet, Chris Weigant, Revolution, Independence, Britain, Common Sense, America, Paine, Politics News

Two hundred and thirty-six years ago this week, a pamphlet was published in Philadelphia. Thomas Paine's Common Sense hit the American consciousness like a bombshell -- one which would reverberate for years to come.

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Open Government Data: Not Just Good Policy, But Economically Sound

W. David Stephenson | Posted 01.10.2012 | Business

Read More: Xbrl, Gps, Open Data, Gov 2.0, Government, Obama Administration, Itdashboard, Tom Carper, Business News

It's time for those on both the right and left concerned about the cost and efficiency of government to join in: opening up data makes hard economic sense as well.

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Turning Off the Lights: Democracy in the Dark

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 01.10.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Entitlements, Public Space, Democracy, New Hampshire Primary, Austerity, Politics News

There is no more dismal metaphor for America's abandonment of the public sphere than the decision by Highland Park, Michigan to rip up a swath of its street lights in the name of public parsimony.

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Marginalizing Ron Paul

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Law, Congress, Terrorism, Economy, War, Ron Paul, Obama, Campaign, 2012, Government, Politics, Iowa Cacuses, Military, Fed, Federal Reserve, New York Times, Wall Street, Elections 2012, Ron Paul 2012, 2012 Election, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News

It should not be difficult for the New York Times editorial writers to treat Ron Paul as a profound and principled contributor to a much-needed national debate on the limits of federal power instead of attempting to marginalize his views beyond recognition.

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Policy and Markets: How, Not If

Bruce W. Jentleson | Posted 12.15.2011 | Politics

Read More: Government, Laissez-Faire, Markets, Bi-Sectoralism, Politics News

The nature of 21st century international economic competition writ large is not about who can become the most laissez faire capitalist but who can forge optimal bi-sectoralist policy-market synergies.

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There Goes the Republic

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.15.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Pentagon, Law, Congress, Bush, Money, Terrorism, Economy, Defense Authorization, War, Obama, Media, Government, House, White House?S Health Care Summit, History, Senate, Military, Ndaa, Security, Military-Industrial Complex, Torture, Politics News

The defense authorization bill that will soon become law is not only a disaster in the making for civil liberty but a blow to effective anti-terrorist police work.

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3 Themes of Gov 2.0 L.A. 2012

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 12.14.2011 | Technology

Read More: Government, gov20la, Engagement, Gov 3.0, Mobile, Politics, Technology, Emergency Services, Alan W. Silberberg, Santa Monica, Social Media in Emergencies, Cloud, Government 2.0, Crisis Communications, Technology News

We are past the point where the "Gov 2.0" in our name does more than evoke recognition. It is time to focus not on the theoretical but on the practical.

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Amid Portal Problems, USAJOBS Turns Frustration to Friendship With Social Media

Steve Ressler | Posted 12.12.2011 | DC

Read More: Social Media, Youtube, Govloop, Twitter, Usajobs, Facebook, Government, Career, Federal Government, Careers, Jobs, Video, DC News

When USAJOBS -- the online portal for federal jobs -- shut down for a few days in October to launch it's new website, government job seekers and recru...

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Growing Tomorrow's Leaders, One Land Title at a Time

Tim Hanstad | Posted 02.08.2012 | Education

Read More: Government, Usaid, India, Unesco, Millennium Development Goals, Tuition Fees, Primary-Education, Rural Development, Land Rights, Landesa, Odisha, Education News

It should be simple. A country ensures free education for all children, and everyone benefits. But we all know it's not that easy.

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Double Trouble

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 02.07.2012 | Technology

Read More: Data Center Exchange, Information Technology, Gao Report, Government, Meritalk, Technology News

Sometimes, the challenges facing Federal IT -- and Washington writ large -- seem so complex as to be intractable. Other times the answers are so simple it makes my blood boil.

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All-American Socialism?

Jedediah Purdy | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics

Read More: Government, Democracy, Medicare, Social Security, Socialism, New Deal, Politics News

Is socialism's value as a meaningless scare-word played out yet? If so, maybe we can give it a second chance as a real idea. By treating the word as an all-purpose insult, we've lost touch with essential strands of American political thinking.

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Government-Sponsored Sinner

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, White House, Welfare, Congress, Speech, Clinton, Obama, 2012, Government, House, Politics, Religion, Barack Obama, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Politics News

The driving faith of the GOP has become the notion that the toxic mixture of moral hypocrisy and unfettered greed is a formula for victory. Newt Gingrich could be their man.

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