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Deficit Commission: No Easy Path

December 2, 2010 by Jeff Smith
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For the past several months, I have been privileged to be one of 16 people chosen to serve on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s U.S. Debt Reduction Task Force. The Task Force was chaired by former U.S. Senator Peter Domenici, who led the Finance Committee during his 36 years in the Senate, and Dr. Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institute,... [read more]

Team America Rocketry Challenge Registration Opens

September 3, 2009 by Civil Air Patrol NatCap Wing
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Registration for the world’s largest rocket competition, the Team America Rocketry Challenge, is open to 750 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school or non-profit youth organization. Registration for the 2010 spring contest is open now through November 30. The annual rocket contest, sponsored by AIA, challenges... [read more]

Blogs as Public Policy Forums

September 2, 2009 by GoverningPeople Admin
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A new study out by Brookings “Blogs as Public Forums for Agency Policymaking” looks at blogs created by top officials in five federal agencies and compared them to similar, but non-official blogs on the same topics to see how each are used to link citizens and government officials.  Authors Julianne Mahler and Pricilla Regan found... [read more]

Is Britain a reliable ally?

August 22, 2009 by Douglas Carwell
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Successive post-War British governments - in my view rightly - recognised that the interests of the United Kingdom and the United States tended to be pretty similar.  Not identical.  But rarely miles apart. With a common heritage, and similar economic interests in free trade, it has generally suited us both ... [read more]

Extradite the judiciary or import democracy?

July 28, 2009 by Douglas Carwell
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British judges, according to today's Telegraph, are more likely to agree to extradite suspects to the US than American judges are to allow their citizens to be put on trial in the UK. Of course.  That's because US judges are more democratically accountable than ours.  However snooty us Brits are about the American... [read more]

The failure of Gov 2.0, many implementers are missing the point

July 27, 2009 by Oliver Bell
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Government’s around the world seem to be fundamentally missing at least one of the key tenants of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used to enhance eGovernment programs, not for lack of trying, more likely because it is hard not to think like a government when you are a government. I spent a chunk of this morning looking at some of the... [read more]

Air Force & Social/New Media

April 14, 2009 by Mike Kujawski
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I just came across this post by David Meerman Scott mentioning a new video released by the U.S Air Force regarding their use of new media. Here’s the official description of the video from the Air Force YouTube Channel: “This video, created by the Air Force Public Affairs Agency, Emerging Technology Division, shows how our Airmen are... [read more]

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