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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS: GovManagement Daily will not be published Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday.
Federal Oil-Drilling Regulator Resigns Minerals Management Service Director S. Elizabeth Birnbaum resigned in the wake of criticism over insufficient oversight of offshore drilling and an inspector general's report detailing a cozy relationship between some MMS employees and the oil and gas companies they regulate. MORE: Government Executive Technology | The Nation 12 Counties Could Get Free Wi-Fi A dozen counties could get free wireless broadband as early as December 2011, provided a lot of things happen before then. County Executives of America has applied for $122 million in federal stimulus money to help launch free broadband in the 12 counties, ranging from Kenosha County, Wis., to the Bronx. MORE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Pentagon May Protect Private-Sector Networks As the risk of a cyber attack on the nation's infrastructure increases, the Defense Department could take on a bigger role in protecting private-industry computer networks, including the deployment of intrusion-prevention systems, according to a top DOD official. MORE: Washington Technology
Broad Transit Fare Increases OKd The regional transit system's board of directors unanimously approved the most expansive fare hike in Metro's history: nearly $109 million worth of rail, bus and paratransit increases. MORE: Washington Post The Military | The Nation House, Senate Panel Back 'Don't Ask' Repeal A proposal to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military passed two critical tests, with the House and an important Senate committee endorsing an end to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. MORE: Chicago Tribune Law Enforcement | Los Angeles County 99 Reserve Deputies Ousted or Demoted The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has given reserve deputy badges to people who flunked mandatory law enforcement tests and attended classes at unauthorized locations, according to a state report. As a result, 99 reserve deputies are being stripped of their badges or demoted to lower-level volunteer status. MORE: Los Angeles Times Finance | Arizona For First Time Since '07, Tax Collections Are Up Arizona's budget has been in crisis mode for about two years, but budget analysts are reporting some good news: April saw the first year-over-year gain in monthly tax collections since September 2007, with a 4.1 percent increase above the April 2009 level. MORE: Arizona Republic
Forecasters: Big Storms Are Coming Releasing its official Atlantic basin outlook, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a very active hurricane season: 14 to 23 named hurricanes and tropical storms, including seven Category 3 or higher hurricanes. MORE: Aol News Courts and Corrections | Pennsylvania Panel: Overhaul Juvenile-Justice System A commission set up to investigate a "kids for cash" scandal issued far-reaching recommendations aimed at overhauling the state's juvenile-justice system. Two Luzerne County judges have been charged with receiving more than $2.8 million in payoffs from the operators of two juvenile detention centers. MORE: Philadelphia Inquirer More news, analysis, resources and events: GovManagement.com |
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The day the American Institute for Economic Research has declared to be this year's "Friedman Day," named in honor of the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and representing the point in the year when the institute calculates that the costs of funding government would be paid off if every dollar that every American earned starting Jan. 1 were devoted to that purpose American Institute for Economic Research | More data QUOTABLE ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
E.J. Dionne Jr. Capitalism, Socialism and a Gush of Oil So who is in charge of stopping the Gulf oil spill, BP or the federal government? The fact that the answer to this question seems murky suggests that this is an excellent moment to recognize that our arguments pitting capitalism against socialism and the government against the private sector muddle the issues far more than they clarify. MORE: Washington Post UPCOMING |
