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 can’t look at a long gap in an applicant’s resume and decide there is something…
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 public, if only anyone knew where to find it.) One of my tweeps recently received…
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 government wants some sort of help from me, but that’s because they are generally on…
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 going through Mayor’s Orders.) Among them, two that are examples of the notable lack of…
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 that there is a problem with using personal email on work business. But it’s not…
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channel in calling them that?), which I haven’t read, I thought I would share a no-longer-in-effect Mayor’s Memorandum (rescinded in 2001) that seems to have made a good deal of sense. MM 89-48
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 are those recognizing people on milestone birthdays or their retirement. Why are they the best?…