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• Leave a CommentSeaside, CA letter carrier Rafael Leon recently helped save an elderly woman who had fallen and was injured inside of her home.
• Leave a CommentObama’s fiscal 2015 budget calls for a 1 percent raise for federal workers. Recent years have been worse, with pay freezes. There’s no ‘crash’ yet in workforce quality, but OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell worries it could happen.
• Leave a CommentAfter years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence strategies at their own employees to root out spies, terrorists or leakers.
• Leave a CommentWhistle-blower says U.S. missed Boston Marathon, ‘underwear bomb’ plots because NSA was ‘tied up monitoring online games.’
• Leave a CommentWith a little advance planning and self-discipline, you might not ever be famous but you could be rich.
• Leave a CommentThe 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.
• Leave a CommentNew Mexico is one of 10 states to see a dramatic decrease in federal employment since 2007, according to a Census Bureau report released Friday.
• Leave a CommentThe head of the U.S. Border Patrol directed agents Friday to refrain from firing weapons during border encounters unless their lives are endangered, a move that comes amid criticism regarding a number of killings by agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• Leave a CommentThe author says it is becoming increasingly dangerous to criticize people’s weight. He says federal employees need to consider at what point it becomes unlawful harassment or retaliation when they encounter it in the workplace.
• Leave a CommentDespite Republican Rep. Darrell Issa apparently telling his Democratic counterpart on the House oversight committee he’s sorry for cutting him off during a tense hearing earlier this week, Democrats are mulling the possibility of an ethics complaint.
• Leave a CommentA Maryland man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday for stealing the identities of several federal employees and using them to open fraudulent credit card accounts, as well as rent cars in their name and then sell them.
• Leave a CommentAn Oklahoma postal worker is arrested, accused of trafficking drugs for friends through the mail.
• Leave a CommentRetirees 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.
• Leave a CommentEven 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.
• Leave a CommentFederal 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.
• Leave a CommentA 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.
• Leave a CommentThe government’s decision to consolidate a Veterans Affairs office in Overland means relocation of more than 800 jobs out of downtown St. Louis.
• Leave a CommentWays 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.
• Leave a CommentThe 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.
• Leave a CommentA spike in missing mail complaints at a midtown Atlanta U.S. Post Office led investigators to arrest a postal worker on mail obstruction charges.
• Leave a CommentNASA now acknowledges that the government agency has been effectively giving a price break on jet fuel to a private company.
• Leave a CommentThe Thrift Savings Plan is an important component of your retirement plan, but it’s up to you to utilize it to its full potential. The author offers some benefits and challenges of the TSP as well as some investment approaches to consider.
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