Saturday, March 31, 2007

Cross Department Programs Don't Work

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From a Washington Times report on the findings of the DOJ OIG : A partnership begun in 2004 by the Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury ...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Hobby Farmers

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The LA Times has an article on hobby farmers: Hobby farmers — loosely defined as those whose incomes are derived not solely from farming — ...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Northern Ireland and Northern Iraq

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In the last few days, Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the Unionists in Northern Ireland, agreed to join Sein Fein in a government. I remember i...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Mismanagement and Agency Culture

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NASCOE (National Association of County Office Employees) is the organization for Farm Service Agency employees. I occasionally look at thei...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Surprising Tidbit on Women

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I was surprised to read in this Washington Times article on the predominance of women on college campuses that: "In 1870, the first ye...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Getting Privacy for Farm Payment Data

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Ken Cook at EWG explains why they don't publish the names of food stamp recipients, as they do for farmers. Of course, times have chan...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Office Closing and Pandering

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Another in a series, from the Aberdeen SD paper: Sen. John Thune has introduced legislation that would stop any potential Farm Service Agenc...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Why It's Hard to Cut Offices

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Read this account from the Hays (Kansas) Daily News of a meeting discussing closing a county office. If each of the 223 people at the meet...

Structure and Systems Make a Difference

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An article in the NY Times today reported this: The Long Island Index, which is financed by the Rauch Foundation, a nonprofit group, compa...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Pet Peeve Time, or, Why Kyle Sampson Shouldn't Have Been Hired

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One of my pet peeves is people who refuse to get into the 21st century. Even though the software industry has provided PC's with hundre...