The General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s office space, had a shakeup at the top after it was revealed the agency spent $822,000 on a lavish Las Vegas conference.
A familiar D.C. face has been tapped to head the U.S. General Services Administration.
Dan Tangherlini. Photo by sbma44 Last week, the Washington Post reported that the D.C. Office of Risk Management failed to pay out some $3–6 million taken out of disabled workers’ paychecks to insurance providers over a period of about 7 years. The error was brought to light after a worker followed up on an insurance claim. Apparently, no claims made by any of the hundreds of workers who were charged for insurance but not granted…
Dan Tangherlini On the heels of Nikita Stewart’s scoop last night that people have been getting vetting calls from the FBI about D.C. City Administrator Dan Tangherlini, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty called a 3 p.m. press conference today to announce a “Cabinet-level” personnel announcement. And the word has just come down: Tangherlini is off to Treasury, where he’ll serve as assistant secretary for management, chief financial officer, and chief performance officer. That’s sure a…
Only a handful of people I know still have landlines at home. It’s especially marked among people under 30, those of us who moved to the city and into a group house soon after college at a time when cell phones were basically mandatory. Maybe we’ve moved into nicer places since then, but who needs a landline? It’s just an extra expense that seems increasingly redundant. But what about in the office? D.C. Wire reports…
WTOP’s Mark Segraves got a hold of a partial list of the folks who’ve been receiving tickets to use the city’s free luxury box in the Verizon Center — the one that the D.C. Council is so miffed they’re being boxed out of — and there’s some fun tidbits he discovered.Most of those invited to D.C.’s Luxury Suite at the Verizon Center by Fenty either contributed the maximum $2,000 to Fenty’s campaign or worked on…
Are you ready, D.C.?! That’s right: it’s the first snowfall of the season. We talked about it yesterday, and the outlook remains pretty much the same. Both Capital Weather and our local TV weatherpeople agree that we’ll get about an inch of unusually fluffy snow, with most of it falling by early afternoon. City Starts Looking For More Theft: Watch out, D.C. government ne’er-do-wells: Dan Tangherlini is on your trail. NBC4 reports that the…
Whether we like to admit it or not, most of us are Monday morning quarterbacks when it comes to local government. Whenever the District’s government does something foolish, many of us are quick to assume that we could do better. Well, now we have a chance to prove it. During last year’s mayoral campaign, the D.C. Appleseed Center ran a campaign soliciting resident input into the city’s most pressing problems. From the 1,500 submissions they…
Good morning, Washington. We always thought it might be sort of fun to suggest something totally off the wall about President Bush, like that he might, oh, hate your children and want them to die sick and alone. Now that he’s gone ahead and confirmed it, it’s hard to know where to go from here. Is there anything worse than sick and dying children? How about, President Bush is in league with the devil? While…
Good morning, Washington. It’s only the end of September, but if drug store candy aisles are any indication, many of you are probably already thinking ahead just a little bit to the holiday season. What will you be for Halloween? Will you stay in town for Thanksgiving? What kind of Christmas bonus will you be getting this year? For some D.C. government employees, the answer to that last question is now up in the air….
