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An employee being fired for submitting false information apparently sent in more false information when responding to the proposed removal. That was a mistake but it did give the employee a chance to make a unique argument.

Winter has arrived in Washington, DC. OPM says that federal agencies are open in the metro area today but employees can take unscheduled annual leave and emergency employees are expected to come to work on time.

Wrangling over the 2007 federal pay raise may not be over but we do know that the political infighting over the 2008 raise has already begun. The federal payroll in the DC area is about $76 million per day and local Congressman want to see it keep on growing. They are urging the President to support equal pay raises for military and civilian personnel in 2008.

President Bush has left open the possibility of a pardon for two Border Patrol agents serving federal prison sentences for shooting a Mexican drug dealer as he fled and covering up the crime.

If you work for a government, a new website is about to start up that wants employees of all governments with a penchant for whistleblowing to post government documents anonymously on the web. There is the potential for huge problems, such as disclosing national defense secrets.

A memorial service has been held for a Postal Employee and Coast Guard officer who died helping a driver who had crashed.

Snow has finally arrived to the DC area along with patches of ice and traffic delays.

Twenty-six IRS computer tapes containing taxpayer information delivered to City Hall in August are missing according to Kansas City officials.

Many acronyms are chosen for their public relations appeal. RAT (for Recreation Access Tax) does not have the ring of a public relations success but the Forest Service has been successful of upholding the fee in court after issuing parking tickets.

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January 22, 2007 3:44 PM View Blog So one issue in this case was the credibility and integrity of federal employees- this is expected to be high- but in this case the employee lied-on the record. This is nothing new in my personal exp...

January 22, 2007 3:19 PM View Blog The crux of this is the employee entered false statements on the record in her defense (the issue of the deciding offiical's consideration of a memorandum of annexations is a separate issue that the B...

January 22, 2007 2:19 PM View Blog No wonder they keep on crossing the border. We twist ourselves into pretzels putting on 'ethical airs', and they just slip thru the pretzel holes. The US Att Office tracked this illegal criminal down...

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