Dorobek Must Reads – August 27

Each day, the DorobekInsider team searches the Web for the stories most important to the federal community. We gather them so you don’t have to.

• Wind turbine projects run into resistance (NYT)
• The state of open data in government: your opinion matters (Socrata)
• Acrimony behind the scenes of gulf oil spill (NYT)
• A big surprise: troubled assets garner rewards (NYT)
• DHS plans to “improve” national emergency exercises (Secrecy News)
• Germany plans limits on Facebook use in hiring (NYT)
• Cybersecurity: a complex “web” of problems (Heritage Foundation)
• Earthquakes are huge on data.gov (O’Reilly Radar)
• How the stimulus is changing America (TIME)
• Five technologies that will change the market (Washington Technology)
• Aw, wilderness! (NYT)

And here’s a list of stories that you made popular yesterday:

1. Rule would change contractors’ hiring practices
2. More TSP participants taking out money early
3. OMB plans to consolidate government data centers
4. DorobekINSIDER: IRSs Doone named GSA CFO
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6. Power IT Down helps the troops and environment
7. More take hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts
8. DoD looks to industry for budget advice
9. VA IT specialist creates cyber awareness site
10. U.S. Navy drove violates airspace

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