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Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

by Andrew B. Einhorn Nov 17 2009, 01:36 PM   Hat Tip: Max

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Innovative snow control program should be more successful

by Andrew B. Einhorn Nov 17 2009, 10:28 AM An innovative snow-control program in Minnesota has demonstrated just how cool government can be. By paying landowners to grow crops along the highway that function as snow barriers, the state government has realized a 1700 percent return on their investment. In 2001, the Minnesota Department of Transportation started paying landowners to grow ...

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re: How many billions are being spent to oversee the stimulus package?

by Andrew B. Einhorn Nov 11 2009, 11:18 AM Great Question! We're going to look into this.

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CDC: A Model for Gov 2.0

by Andrew B. Einhorn Nov 11 2009, 12:08 AM “Healthy adults 50+ can delay an H1N1 shot until high risk groups get it.” This was first text message sent to me after I signed up to test out what Gov 2.0 looked like at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then, about one text every two days alerts me to various dangers, health advisories or factoids — the last being that ...

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re: 17 'Nay' votes as House congratulates N.Y. Yankees on World Series

by Andrew B. Einhorn Nov 07 2009, 01:02 PM That would be Rep. José Serrano [D-NY16].

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Greener cars roll into federal agencies

by Andrew B. Einhorn Oct 29 2009, 10:29 AM Two-thirds of the roughly 17,200 fuel-efficient vehicles purchased by the government with stimulus funds have been delivered to 20 federal agencies, reports Tim Kauffman of the Federal Times. The new cars mean "an astounding 40 percent increase in fuel efficiency compared with the vehicles traded in," according to the ...

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re: Recovery.gov revamped with an unexpected helper: SharePoint

by Andrew B. Einhorn Oct 28 2009, 04:02 PM Good point spaceghost. MSFT certainly had the muscle to get in the door unlike many other platform providers. Given the difficulty in dealing with the government, the fact of the matter is most companies simply don't know how to jump through all the hoops.

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NSPS finally killed; Feds get sick leave pay

by Andrew B. Einhorn Oct 28 2009, 03:47 PM Today, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act.  Included in the bill was a provision to repeal the controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS) as well as several small provisions impacting retirement benefits for the federal workforce.   “We applaud President Obama and Congress ...

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re: Recovery.gov revamped with an unexpected helper: SharePoint

by Andrew B. Einhorn Oct 28 2009, 08:36 AM Hi Charles - unfortunately for us we don't get paid by Microsoft. We simply report the facts, which in this case are that recovery.gov was built quickly via a MSFT platform the government had already purchased that the programmers chose to use. No lobbying here. It was just the smart choice at the time. There is a reason the company has done ...

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Can an iPhone App change business in Congress?

by Andrew B. Einhorn Oct 22 2009, 10:13 AM Rep. Vern Buchanan has it on his BlackBerry so he can communicate with his colleagues. David Hersenhorn, reporter for the New York Times, uses it while reporting on the Hill. Adam Conner, Facebook's Public Policy Representative, needs it to lobby Congress. But what is "it"? "It" is a smart phone application that ...

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