Ramblings on employment of DC residents
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
Category: Laws and regs
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FOIA
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
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Lazy government workers
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
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Consistency, conshmistency
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
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The problem with personal email, a rant from my squeaky clean soapbox
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
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Snow dismissal
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
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It’s Friday and that means…
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),