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Federal employment is expected to drop sharply in the span of a decade, government projections show, as budget cuts and retirements begin to reshape the workforce.

Retire Here, Not There: Alabama

Retirees seeking the retirement trifecta – golf, the beach and warm weather – often flock to pricey places like Hilton Head, Palm Beach or Santa Barbara. But sugar-sand beaches, sunshine and some of the best golf in the nation can be had at a much lower price in Alabama.

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Darrell Issa Seen Plowing Ahead With IRS Probe Amid New Evidence

The House Oversight Committee Chairman is plowing forward with plans to hold the former IRS official in contempt of Congress – possibly as early as next week – despite word from the tax agency that it plans to hand over a broad set of documents spanning Lerner’s entire career at the IRS.

Paper Pushers: Industry-Backed Group Urges Feds To Keep Printing Documents

A paper industry-backed group recently has launched a pricey public relations campaign in a bid to slow the federal government’s dive into the digital age, by lobbying to bring back paper printing.

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Door Left Open For Chained CPI Comeback

Even though the administration dropped a proposal to use a lower inflation marker to calculate federal retiree benefits from its fiscal 2015 budgets, lawmakers say it might not be gone for good.

Official in Charge of Federal ObamaCare Exchanges To Leave Job

The official in charge of the federal ObamaCare exchanges, who oversaw the insurance marketplaces through their troubled rollout, has announced he is resigning at the end of open enrollment.

NASA Admits to Selling Discount Fuel to Google Execs

NASA now acknowledges that the government agency has been effectively giving a price break on jet fuel to a private company.

IRS Agrees to Turn Over Lerner Documents to Camp

Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that after months of discussions with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding producing documents pertaining to the Committee’s investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the IRS will turn over Lois Lerner emails and documents to the Chairman.

VA Consolidation To Cost 800 Downtown Jobs

The government’s decision to consolidate a Veterans Affairs office in Overland means relocation of more than 800 jobs out of downtown St. Louis.

Report: Employee Caught Stealing Parcels From Midtown Post Office

A spike in missing mail complaints at a midtown Atlanta U.S. Post Office led investigators to arrest a postal worker on mail obstruction charges.

Senate Staffers Slipped Secret CIA Documents From Agency’s Headquarters

Congressional aides involved in preparing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s unreleased study of the CIA’s secret interrogation and detention program walked out of the spy agency’s fortress-like headquarters with classified documents that the CIA contended they weren’t authorized to have.

House Opts Against Condemning Issa

The House on Thursday rejected a Democratic resolution that condemned Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) for shutting down a committee hearing without letting any Democrat speak.

How Snow Days Make The Argument For IT Reform

Thanks to advances in IT infrastructure, teleworking has greatly improved over the last decade, and has become a great way for federal agencies to give their employees the flexibility they desire as well as saving the organization money by reducing real estate costs. However, due to outdated or inflexible IT systems, many government agencies, government contractors and private organizations are ill-equipped to handle spikes in the number of remote workers telecommuting during unusual circumstances, like snow days.