In my work today, I came across two coards* that have sunset dates in the coming months. One, the Tenant Advisory Council, sunsets next Monday, and the other, the Advisory Committee to the Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender…
Laws and regs
Another consistency question to ponder
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What is the difference between: 1. Section xxx is repealed and replaced with… and 2. Section xxx is amended in its entirety to read… Thoughts?
Ramblings on employment of DC residents
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Earlier today there was a hearing on Bill 19-486, the Unemployed Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2011. As the title indicates, it is about adding “unemployment status” to the list of protected classes in DC’s human rights law, so that employers…
FOIA
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If you didn’t guess from my previous post on the matter, I have a bit of a love affair with the Freedom of Information Act. (This may have something to do with my own searches for information that should be…
Lazy government workers
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Government workers get a bad rap. We’re supposedly all lazy, unhelpful, want to give people the run-around, etc. My experience has, for the most part, been the opposite. I confess personally to some minor irritation when someone from outside the…
Consistency, conshmistency
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A brief follow up to yesterday’s post on committee names. Today’s step (one of today’s steps…) in the big project was to search the DC Code to find committees, boards, etc., that the Director of DPR sits on. (Yesterday involved…
The problem with personal email, a rant from my squeaky clean soapbox
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Today’s scandal-du-jour (yes, that is somewhat redundant) involves government officials using private email accounts to conduct public business. They must be doing it to avoid FOIA! They are terrible people! This must be stopped! Done overreacting? Good. It is true…
Snow dismissal
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In light of the federal government’s new early dismissal policy for snow events (oh wow who did I just channel in calling them that?), which I haven’t read, I thought I would share a no-longer-in-effect Mayor’s Memorandum (rescinded in 2001)…
It’s Friday and that means…
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DC Register day! For a serious (with occasional snark) summary, you can always follow fellow nerd hgil on twitter. But if you want the best parts of the Register (i.e., Council’s Ceremonial Resolutions), you have to come here. The best ACRs…