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  • October 2008

    • Leave Washington Alone!

      Washington Post  |  Oct 5, 08 1:58 PM CDT

      Leave Washington Alone!

      (Newser) - Politicians can make a career out of promising to “change,” “clean up,” “reform,” and “shake up” Washington. And while the District may not completely be a shining city on a hill, it’s doing just fine, thank you, Leonard Downie writes in a tribute to the nation’s oft-slandered capital. “It particularly irks me when candidates for president rail against my adopted hometown,” Downie notes in the Washington Post . More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Washington DC  • bureaucracy  • public sector  • private sector

  • August 2008
  • April 2008

    • Census Bureau Downgrades Back to Paper

      nextgov.com  |  Apr 3, 08 6:56 PM CDT

      Census Bureau Downgrades Back to Paper

      (Newser) - The 2010 US census was meant to be a high-tech affair, NextGov.com reports, but the Census Bureau today ditched plans to use hand-held computers. The agency will return to plain old paper after "a lack of effective communication" derailed efforts by Harris Corp. to come up with devices to record data from the estimated 1 million who don't mail back their forms. More »

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      technology  • Census Bureau  • bureaucracy  • census  • bureaucratic blunders  • Carlos Gutierrez

  • March 2008

    • Government Typos 'Kill' Thousands

      MSNBC  |  Mar 1, 08 9:08 AM CST

      Government Typos 'Kill' Thousands

      (Newser) - It's not easy being dead—just ask Laura Todd. The Tennessee woman is one of an estimated 12,000 people a year the government declares dead—often because of a typo in the Social Security database—when they're still very much alive, MSNBC reports. The error can create a financial mess and is just shy of impossible to correct. More »

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      death  • Social Security  • Medicaid  • government  • database  • bureaucracy  • red tape

  • January 2008
  • July 2007

    • Pentagon Destroys Surplus Goods

      Time  |  Jul 23, 07 2:21 PM CDT

      Pentagon Destroys Surplus Goods

      (Newser) - The Pentagon is scrapping millions of dollars of gear it has traditionally resold to surplus dealers, Time reports. The army claims that sorting passels of helmets, boots, and sleeping bags is too onerous, while suppliers are concerned the move is the vestige of an effort to keep old jet parts out of Iranian hands. More »

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      Iraq  • US Army  • fighter jet  • bureaucracy  • surplus  • army supplies

  • April 2007

    • How America Is Betraying The Iraqis Who Work For It

      New Yorker  |  Apr 1, 07 10:19 PM CDT

      How America Is Betraying The Iraqis Who Work For It

      (Newser) - George Packer traveled the world from Baghdad to Malmo to Damascus to talk to the Iraqis, mostly young,  who have served the American military as interpreters, intelligence gathers and local experts.  He finds a disillusioned group of once pro-American Iraqis betrayed by mistrust, bureaucratic indifference, and outright lack of concern by American officials who have put them and their families in harm's way. More »

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      Iraq  • troop withdrawal  • US Army  • military  • America  • PTSD  • stress  • bureaucracy

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