Tuesday - June 16, 2009
The Obama administration wants to overhaul the country's financial rule book by giving the Federal Reserve increased powers but, bowing to critics in Congress, is backing away from proposals to consolidate various regulatory agencies. The administration's overhaul plan would make the Fed a systemic risk regulator to oversee large institutions whose failure could threaten the stability of the entire system. It also will create a council of regulators with broad coordination responsibility across the financial system, administration officials said.
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Tuesday - March 3, 2009
The expression, "Inside the Beltway" is often used in a pejorative sense -- as a vague insult referring to an amorphous group of politicians, policy wonks, nonprofits and think tanks. Given what's currently happening on Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Ave., it's not just the usual political hacks who are interested in what is happening in D.C.
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Tuesday - November 18, 2008
What mistakes will cause emergency communication systems to undergo excessive stress or possibly fail in a disaster, and what steps should be taken to improve performance? One of the biggest challenges for emergency communication centers is the wide range of situations that require responses.
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Friday - November 14, 2008
Saturday, Nov. 8, 6:15 p.m. I am meeting a friend at 7, and I'm later than I wanted to be getting to the Metro. Unfortunately, I'm a bit off my stride. I forgot to get dollar bills and now have to scrounge through my purse looking for enough loose change. It occurs to me how nice it would be if the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority took debit cards.
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Wednesday - November 12, 2008
For the second time since its acquisition of Siebel, Oracle is rolling out a major upgrade of the iconic on-premise suite. Version 8.1.1 has rehabbed many of its features -- as well as lavished a great deal of attention on the loyalty functions. The company is also introducing Oracle CRM Gadgets for Sales -- five mini-applications that provide enterprise data and service leveraging Web 2.0 content.
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Friday - October 31, 2008
The U.S. government is getting better at designing Web sites that are user-friendly and provide value, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released by the University of Michigan and ForeSee Results. Satisfaction with federal Web sites improved 1.4 percent to 73.9 on ACSI's 100-point scale -- one of the highest scores in this category thus far.
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Friday - October 17, 2008
It has been eight years since the 2000 presidential election revealed the many flaws that existed in the mechanics of U.S. voting systems. Despite that debacle, many states have not made even basic improvements to assist voters -- such as providing user-friendly Web sites that tell them how to register and where to go to vote.
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Friday - October 3, 2008
Railhead, a massive government IT project, is failing -- and it's not an isolated case. Large IT projects in agencies from the FBI to the Census Bureau spectacularly -- and, it seems, regularly -- crash and burn, much to taxpayers' disgust. It seems there are certain aspects of government culture that make IT failure more likely. It just may be that failure is built into the system.
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Friday - June 6, 2008
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has a new day job: game developer. The former justice's latest pursuit came to light during her keynote address Wednesday at the Games for Change Conference held at Parsons The New School For Design in New York. Designed for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders, "Our Courts" will be an online interactive civic education project.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
Much ink has been spilled about what, exactly, has been the secret of Barack Obama's overwhelming success. There is no denying his charisma or the appeal of his message, but a behind-the-scenes look at how his political machine operates -- namely, how it empowers its people on the ground to operate -- is worth a look as well.
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