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NEWS: July 26, 2016
FBI Probing Whether Russians Hacked Clinton's Aides, Groups As cybersecurity experts and U.S. officials said there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails in order to influence the U.S. presidential election, the FBI's investigation expanded to determine if aides and organizations considered close to Hillary Clinton were also attacked, according to federal officials involved in the investigation. But a sampling of senior Clinton aides found none who said they had been notified by the FBI or by private investigators that their emails had been compromised. >> Reuters, New York Times Retired Marine General Endorses Clinton Retired Marine Gen. John Allen, who led troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and helped coordinate the international fight against the Islamic State, endorsed Clinton, saying she has the patience and understanding to make smart decisions about using military power. >> Marine Corps Times The Military | The Nation Survey: Public Overestimates Number of Post-9/11 Vets with Mental-Health Conditions The general public vastly overestimates the number of post-9/11 veterans with mental-health conditions, a misconception veterans' advocates say threatens the overall well-being and employment prospects of former troops, according to a recent survey conducted by the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative. >> Military Times Army Contracting Officials' Work Sloppy, IG Says Officials at five Army components failed to fully comply with rules for evaluating contractors' past performance when awarding work, the Pentagon's inspector general reported. Generally speaking, the IG found sloppy work on the part of Army contracting officials. >> Government Executive
City's Top Cop Won't Stay Past 2017 William J. Bratton said that he will not remain the commissioner of the New York Police Department past next year, throwing a wild card into Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2017 re-election campaign. Bratton, who kicked off his second stint as New York's commissioner in 2014, first served in the post from 1994 to 1996 under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani and also headed the Boston and Los Angeles police departments. >> New York Times, New York Observer Jury: Seattle Police Chief Retaliated Against 2 Officers A King County, Wash., jury found that Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole retaliated against two of three officers who were transferred out of a precinct amid a dispute over the handling of overtime pay. >> Seattle Times Law Firm to Oversee Ferguson Police Reforms A federal judge approved the team that will monitor the police-reform consent decree for Ferguson, Mo., picking the Cleveland-based international law firm Squire Patton Boggs from four finalists. >> St. Louis Post-Dispatch Technology Management | The Nation IG: GSA Stumbling on Pricing for IT Products An inspector general has found that some IT products offered by the General Services Administration are not providing agencies with the best possible price. The report said that identical IT products on GSA's schedule contracts were available at multiple and varying prices, often higher than the commercial costs of the same products. >> Federal Times Feds Faltering on Using Internet of Things, Says Report Using connected technologies could help federal agencies save money and become more efficient. but poor leadership prevents the government from taking full advantage of the Internet of Things, according to a new report from the Center for Data Innovation. >> FedScoop
Busy Subway Line to Close for a Year and a Half for Repairs The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to close a tunnel that carries the L train between Manhattan and Brooklyn, one of New York's most crowded subway lines, for a year and a half starting in January 2019, to repair serious damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Officials acknowledge that it will create one of the largest disruptions in the transit system's history. >> New York Times N.J. Governor: Road-Funding Plan Dead on Arrival With hundreds of road projects halted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republican governor rejected the latest funding bid by Democratic legislative leaders to raise the gasoline tax in exchange for a patchwork of tax cuts, calling their offer "dead on arrival." >> NJ.com >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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DATAPOINT 63 Number of 142 countries that in the 50 years leading up to 2014 at some point had a female head of state, according to the World Economic Forum, while in the United States 37 women have served as governors in 27 states since women gained the right to vote in 1920 >> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | More data
“I speak for those who can't speak anymore. It's our job to turn victims into victors.” Roger Mitchell Jr., the District of Columbia's chief medical examiner, one of the youngest overseeing a major-city morgue, who also is a recently licensed Baptist minister and says that while his first priority is to provide answers to families and police he also is trying to use the lessons of the dead to help the living >> Washington Post | More quotes VIEWPOINT Higher Education | Charles Chieppo Degrees of Hunger Two recent studies of students in California's public universities show that large proportions of those students are "food insecure" or homeless. Meanwhile, a new survey found that the average annual compensation for presidents of American public colleges and universities rose 4.3 percent last year, to $431,000. Our public colleges and universities are a microcosm of the larger society, but in this case, that's not a good thing. >> Governing PLUS: David H. Feldman and Robert B. Archibald on the problems debt-free college wouldn't solve. >> The Conversation | More commentaries UPCOMING EVENTS American Society for Public Administration Webinar: "Intersector Project: Navigating an Era of Evolving Partnerships" Today, 1 p.m. ET Government Technology Webinar: "Communication and Compliance: Engaging with Social Media in Framingham, Mass." Today, 2 p.m. ET Brookings Institution Discussion with former Education Secretary Arne Duncan: "The Future of School Accountability under ESSA" July 27, 10-11:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation Discussion: "Assessing Regulatory Practices: 2016 Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance" July 28, 11 a.m.-noon, Washington, D.C. American Society for Public Administration Webinar: "Public Administration Review Editor Search: What You Need to Know" July 28, noon ET Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program on Cybersecurity: the Intersection of Policy and Technology July 31-Aug. 5, Cambridge, Mass. GovLoop and Young Government Leaders Next Generation of Government Training Summit Aug. 1-2, Washington, D.C. Center for Priority Based Budgeting Annual Conference Aug. 2-4, Denver Academy of Management Annual Meeting Aug. 5-9, Anaheim, Calif. >> Full events listings |
