Search Result
Search Tags: Washington Post
Polls find public negativity toward feds
A Washington Post poll and Rasmussen Reports survey both find public negativity toward federal employees and the government.
Tags: Rasmussen Reports , federal pay , overpaid , poll , survey , public perception , pay debate
Brown releases copies of alleged payments
Sulaimon Brown has released copies of the money orders he alleges he received from a member of Mayor Gray's campaign staff to attack then-Mayor Adrian Fenty during last year's elections.
Tags: Sulaimon Brown , Vince Gray , Adrian Fenty , hiring practices
Watson computer beats humans on Jeopardy
Watson, IBM's supercomputer, beat its human competitors on the game show.
Tags: Jeopardy , Watson , IBM , Dave McQueeney , technology , Dorobek Insider , Must Reads
House GOP targets more programs for deeper budget cuts
Republican leaders in the House are calling for even deeper budgets cuts by putting forward a plan that cuts about $60 billion to hundreds of federal programs for the seven months remaining in the current fiscal year.
Tags: Congress , budget , Hal Rogers , Republicans , Barack Obama , government shutdown , spending cuts , deficit , Associated Press , House Appropriations Committee , Jolie Lee
After Tucson, Obama calls for civil political discourse
In the aftermath of the shootings, the president strikes a note of civility.
Tags: Tucson shooting , Barack Obama , political discourse , Sarah Palin , mentally ill , Jared Lee Loughner , Must Reads , National Journal , Politico , Dorobek Insider
Politics, precaution after Tucson shooting
Politico and The Washington Post report how the shooting is becoming the center of political debates.
Tags: Politico , Gabrielle Giffords , Newt Gingrich , Tucson , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider
State database flaws possibly linked to WikiLeaksd
The Washington Post reports on the vast amount of data contained in Net-Centric, whether it belonged there or not.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , WikiLeaks , State , Net-Centric , database , security , transparency , Dorobek Insider
Do your children's textbooks make the grade?
Students are expected to provide correct answers to questions on their state-mandated exams. So what happens when their textbooks are teaching them the wrong answers?
Tags: textbooks , Virginia Department of Education , Five Ponds Press , American History Association , Joy Masoff , Jim Grossman , James Loewen
DoD conflict of interest rule does not apply to senators
The Washington Post reports on a double standard of a defense investment ban that applies to armed services committee staff but not to senators.
Tags: Senate Armed Services Committee , Senate , DoD Update , contracting , Dorobek Insider , investment
U.S. tries to stop Afghan ban on private contractors
U.S. officials are trying to talk the Afghan government out of banning private contractors.
Tags: DoD Update , Afghanistan , David Petraeus , Hamid Karzai , contracting , Dorobek Insider ,
