Editor's Notebook
Government Work
The federal sector is the one place no one seems to want job creation.
Pay & Benefits
Obama gives feds half day off on Christmas Eve
A little extra time when Christmas falls on a Friday is a presidential holiday tradition.
Pay & Benefits
Senators seek to force Congress, political appointees out of FEHBP
Move would require them to join public option system embodied in health care reform.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies authorized to dismiss employees early for Thanksgiving
OPM chief says a little extra time off would be “mark of gratitude” for workers’ service.
Editor's Notebook
Slogan-Free Zone
The government’s chief performance officer bets on substance over style.
Editor's Notebook
Defensive Activism
Why President Obama needs a responsive, interactive government.
Editor's Notebook
The Age of the Chiefs
Government’s chief officers have a whole new set of challenges.
Defense
Defense to bulk up housing assistance program
Recovery Act funds will be used to expand effort to help service members and civilian employees who have been forced to sell their homes at a loss.
Editor's Notebook
Climate Change
Congress and the White House are looking at gay rights issues in a whole new light.
Oversight
Ex-GSA chief of staff to return as administrator
Obama names Martha Johnson to serve as head of agency.
Oversight
Former OMB management chief named to head Recovery Act implementation
G. Edward DeSeve will direct interagency efforts as special adviser to President Obama and assistant to Vice President Biden.
News