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NEWS: July 15, 2016
Trump's Expected Veep Choice Backed Shrinking Federal Workforce Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has reportedly selected as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who served 12 years in Congress. Pence has a long history of advocating for smaller government, attempting at several turns to limit the roles and responsibilities of the public sector and shrink the federal workforce. Some of Pence's moves as governor have ushered in policies friendly to the civil service, however. >> Government Executive Rubio Bill Would Make It Easier to Fire VA Employees Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is sponsoring a new accountability bill that aims to make it easier to fire or demote Department of Veterans Affairs employees and would prevent the department's senior executives from receiving any bonuses over the next five years. >> Government Executive The Military | The Nation Pentagon Moving to Create Non-Civil-Service Cyber Workforce The Defense Department is taking initial steps to create a new civilian cybersecurity workforce outside of the strictures of the traditional civil-service system, giving the department more flexibility to hire, fire and pay employees in critical cyber posts. Congress gave DoD the new personnel authorities as part of the 2016 defense authorization bill. >> Federal News Radio Navy Putting Armed Sailors at Recruiting Stations The Navy is moving to place armed watch-standers--trained, uniformed sailors--at recruiting stations nationwide, a move that comes a year after shootings at a recruiting station and a reserve center in Chattanooga claimed the lives of four Marines and a sailor. >> Navy Times
Former Port Authority Chairman Pleads Guilty to Bribery Charges David Samson, a longtime confidant of Gov. Chris Christie and once New Jersey's attorney general, pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in a scheme to use his former position as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to coerce United Airlines to accommodate his desire for a regular, non-stop flight to his South Carolina summer home. >> The Record of Bergen County, NJ Advance Media Former Indiana Governor Won't Run Again Purdue University President Mitch Daniels put an end to growing speculation, saying that he had no plans to run for governor, an office he held for eight years, if Gov. Mike Pence is, as expected, asked to join Donald Trump's ticket as the vice presidential candidate. >> Indianapolis Star House Conservatives Push for Impeachment of IRS Chief A group of conservative House members is making a last-ditch effort to force a floor vote to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over the agency's treatment of small-government groups. >> Washington Post
City Gets Its First Female Police Chief Phoenix named Oxnard, Calif., Police Chief Jeri Williams, who served 22 years on the Phoenix force, as its first female police chief. Williams has served in Oxnard since 2011 but has maintained roots in Phoenix: Her husband, Cody Williams, is a justice of the peace and former city councilman and her son, Alan Williams, is a center for the Phoenix Suns. >> Arizona Republic Former NYPD Commanders Plead Not Guilty to Corruption Two former commanders of the New York Police Department and a Brooklyn businessman were arraigned on federal corruption charges that prosecutors say stem from illegal gifts made in return for police favors. All three pleaded not guilty to the charges. >> New York Times Higher Education | Las Cruces, N.M. Facing Budget Gap, University to Cut 126 Positions New Mexico State University's main campus in Las Cruces plans to cut 126 positions--37 of which are filled--as part of efforts to mitigate a budget shortfall of $12.1 million. Of the 37 existing jobs to be eliminated, three are faculty posts and the rest are staff positions. >> Las Cruces Sun-News, CBS4 News City College of San Francisco, Faculty Reach Pay Deal Two all-day negotiating sessions ended in a tentative agreement that will revers wage cuts for City College of San Francisco faculty members and give them modest raises over the next two years. >> San Francisco Chronicle Feds Probing CCNY President's Finances Federal prosecutors are investigating the finances of the president of the City College of New York, Lisa S. Coico, and her family, as well as those of a nonprofit foundation affiliated with the institution. >> New York Times Technology Management | The Nation Social Security Planning $300 Million IT Overhaul The Social Security Administration is planning a $300 million modernization of its IT infrastructure, including moving its storage to the Amazon Web Services cloud and embracing more agile software-development practices, its CIO told a House subcommittee. >> FedScoop Army Missing Deadline for Switch to Windows 10 The Army is making some headway on switching to Windows 10 but it is still lagging behind the Defense Department's 2017 deadline, and legacy systems are further weighing down the service's progress. >> Federal News Radio >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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“Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, saying in a statement issued through the court that her public comments about Donald Trump--in which she said she despaired for the country if Trump were elected president and described the presumptive Republican nominee as egotistical, inconsistent and a "faker"--were "ill-advised," seeking to end an embarrassing flap that brought criticism and ethics questions even from her usual allies >> Los Angeles Times, Washington Post “Political actors have realized that judicial elections are a good buy.” Emory University law Professor Michael Kang, who with colleague Joanna Shepherd has released a study finding that state judges are likely to favor their own party when deciding election disputes as a result of increasingly aggressive politics in judicial elections and that judges are under heavy political pressure to participate in party-based fundraising to survive the system's "fiercely competitive electoral environment" >> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | More quotes VIEWPOINT Higher Education | Nicholas B. Dirks A New Model for Public Universities The fate of our great public universities is increasingly under threat, hanging in the balance between diminished funding and the need to invent a new model that recaptures Abraham Lincoln's belief that higher education should be seen as a public good. In recent years, however, Lincoln's idea has been increasingly contested. Political realism suggests it is time to conceive of a drastically different model for public higher education that rescues the original sense of the public trust from the turmoil of politics and public uninterest. >> Chronicle of Higher Education PLUS: Nancy Zimpher on why free college is not enough. >> Inside Higher Ed | More commentaries DATAPOINT About 4,000 Number of cyberattacks by hackers who may be working for foreign governments that Google says it is alerting its Gmail customers about every month--alerts that now take up the user's entire screen, announcing themselves with an angry red flag and the message "Government-backed hackers may be trying to steal your password" >> The Atlantic, Reuters | More data UPCOMING EVENTS Association of Government Accountants Professional Development Training Conference July 17-20, Anaheim, Calif. American Federation of Teachers Annual Convention July 18-21, Minneapolis Government Technology Public CIO Technology Summit July 19-20, St. Louis National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Conference July 19-21, Phoenix Heritage Foundation Discussion: "California's Rush to Restrict Religious Freedom in Higher Education" July 19, noon-1 p.m., Washington, D.C. American Society for Public Administration Webinar: "An Analysis of Superstorm Sandy and Government Responsiveness: How Can Governments Do Better?" July 19, 1 p.m. ET Brookings Institution Discussion: "The 5G Network, the Internet of Things and the Future of Health Care" July 19, 2-3:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Center for American Progress Discussion with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro: "Addressing Lead Exposure in Low-Income Communities" July 20. 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. >> Full events listings |
