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General Accountability Office

Type: Organization

Name: General Accountability Office

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

SIMMONS: When teachers are cheating, everyone is cheated

Here?s another feather for the cap of advocates who want to establish solid lines that link actual teaching to actual learning. Mere test scores are insufficient. Indeed, with the Benghazi, IRS and Justice Department scandals top priorities for the media, ... [Published Washington Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Indictment, IRS Internal Revenue Service, General Accountability Office, Atlanta, Conspiracy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

NOAA working to overcome aging satellites

JACKSONVILLE, Fla -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is working on a plan to deal with aging satellites that could leave the East Coast with reduced hurricane tracking capabilities.Starting as soon as next year, weather satellites ... [Published Action News Jacksonville - May 18 2013]

Entities: NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Hurricanes, Jacksonville (Florida, United States), General Accountability Office, Hurricane Warning

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Concorde Career Colleges Called a Boondoggle

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - Concorde Career Colleges lured respiratory therapy students to pay $40,000 tuition by boasting a 95 percent job placement rate within 6 months of graduation, but its real placement rate in that time frame is "zero percent," eight ... [Published Courthouse News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Concorde Career Colleges, Class Action, Respiratory Therapy, General Accountability Office

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Charm City Blues

It’s been a rough year for the image of Baltimore law enforcement and 2013 is not even half over.Consider:*May 9: A teenage prostitute is arrested in an undercover sting at a hotel near BWI. The man who allegedly drove her there was waiting outside. His ... [Published Afro American Newspaper - May 16 2013]

Entities: Baltimore (Maryland, United States), Police, Prostitution, General Accountability Office, prison

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

EDITORIAL: Stopping big house cellphone use

Even in jail, inmates who have cellphones can work schemes, be they drug deals, planning escapes, ordering punishments or killings, or intimidating witnesses. So it was in the Baltimore City Detention Center, now at the center of a growing scandal centering ... [Published Individual.com - May 13 2013]

Entities: Cellphone, Contraband, Smuggling

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Veterans Affairs

Delays increase cost of VA hospital by $500M

Delays building the Veterans Administration hospital in Aurora have increased the expected construction cost by about $500 million, The Denver Post reports.The General Accountability Office issued a report this week pointing out the slow pace of building ... [Published Denver Business Journal - May 09 2013]

Entities: General Accountability Office, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Denver (Colorado, United States)

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Ed Perlmutter

GAO: Construction delays at Fitzsimons VA hospital costs feds an additional $500 million

The Denver PostPrintEmailTopics[media-credit name="RJ Sangosti" align="alignright" width="495"][/media-credit] The Aurora Veteran’s Administration hospital faced delays because of contractor glitches, which cost the federal government another $500 million. ... [Published Denver Post - May 08 2013]

Entities: Mike Coffman, Construction, Ed Perlmutter, General Accountability Office, Anschutz Medical Campus

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

The Fight Over U.S. Fusion Programs Picks Up Steam

The outrageous year-long drive by the Obama Administration to cripple the American magnetic fusion energy research program, and now also to slow down the laser fusion program, has raised some hackles on Capitol Hill.On May 3, the chairman and ranking ... [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 07 2013]

Entities: United States, Laser, General Accountability Office

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Why the Air Force Flies 50-Year-Old Tankers

Wikimedia CommonsThe cause of the U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crash in northern Kyrgyzstan today—and the fate of the crew of three—is unknown at this time. But today’s news is likely to reopen questions over why the United States is dependent on ... [Published Popular Mechanics - May 04 2013]

Entities: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, General Accountability Office, Air Mobility Command

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

IQ Business Group moves headquarters to Tysons Corner, Virginia

The IQ Business Group, or IQBG, a provider of information and data management solutions, has moved its headquarters from Atlanta, Georgia to Tysons Corner, Virginia. The headquarters relocation follows IQBG's $53 million cloud contract award from the ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: IQ Business Group, Architect of the Capitol, Fed Home Ln Bk, General Accountability Office

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Casey: Are nuke plans reasonable?

Concerned by a report from the General Accountability Office, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to study how Pennsylvanians who live between 10 and 50 miles of a nuclear plant would react if there were a radiation releas ... [Published Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Bob Casey, General Accountability Office, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Radiation, Nuclear

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

The DODâs satellite control networks are fragmented, says GAO report

The DOD’s satellite control networks are fragmented, says GAO reportAir Force agrees it should use more commercial practices to improve efficiency of satellite control operationsThe Department of Defense’s satellite control networks are fragmented and ... [Published Defense Systems - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Reproducibility, Modernization, General Accountability Office

Quotes

...As characterized by the Sunlight Foundation, the policy "signals a new era for open data in our government”."

Good Data: The Foundation of Open Government [Published Brookings Institution - May 22 2013]

...That means we could go as long as six hurricane seasons without full coverage from the weather satellites. "All of the sudden you would start seeing larger areas for hurricane warnings because the accuracy just isn't there. You start seeing longer fused warnings for longer periods of time" Letro says.Forced budget cuts known as sequestration could have an impact on storm tracking this hurricane season...

NOAA working to overcome aging satellites [Published Action News Jacksonville - May 18 2013]

The company states on its website that its mission is to prepare "committed students for successful employment in a rewarding healthcare profession through high-caliber training, real world experience and student-centered support."

Concorde Career Colleges Called a Boondoggle [Published Courthouse News Service - May 17 2013]

Several executives who received these calls for money said "they were uncomfortable with the discussions because the federal government has the power to approve or reject the health plans they want to sell in insurance markets that will be run by federal officials in more than 30 states."

Floor speech on HHS secretary soliciting private funds for Obamacare [Published U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander - May 15 2013]

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Letter: Jones Act defends U.S. marine jobs [Published The Advocate - May 21 2013]
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SIMMONS: When teachers are cheating, everyone i... [Published Washington Times - May 20 2013]
NOAA working to overcome aging satellites [Published Action News Jacksonville - May 18 2013]
Concorde Career Colleges Called a Boondoggle [Published Courthouse News Service - May 17 2013]
Charm City Blues [Published Afro American Newspaper - May 16 2013]
Floor speech on HHS secretary soliciting privat... [Published U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander - May 15 2013]
EDITORIAL: Stopping big house cellphone use [Published Individual.com - May 13 2013]
Delays increase cost of VA hospital by $500M [Published Denver Business Journal - May 09 2013]
GAO: Construction delays at Fitzsimons VA hospi... [Published Denver Post - May 08 2013]
New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell waiting for... [Published Denver Post - May 07 2013]
The Fight Over U.S. Fusion Programs Picks Up Steam [Published Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee - May 07 2013]
Breakthough in the War on Drugs?—Posner [Published The Becker-Posner Blog - May 05 2013]
No changes planned for 'overbuilt' St. Louis fe... [Published STLtoday.com - May 04 2013]
Why the Air Force Flies 50-Year-Old Tankers [Published Popular Mechanics - May 04 2013]
Indian Point evac plans questioned [Published Fairfield Business Journal - May 02 2013]
Skies clear for Joint Strike Fighter [Published The Connecticut Mirror - May 01 2013]
IQ Business Group moves headquarters to Tysons ... [Published Individual.com - Apr 30 2013]
Casey: Are nuke plans reasonable? [Published Wilkes-Barre Times Leader - Apr 28 2013]
The DODâs satellite control networks are fragme... [Published Defense Systems - Apr 25 2013]
Casey asks for better nuke plant emergency plan... [Published Morning Call - Apr 25 2013]
DHS use of deep packet inspection technology in... [Published Computerworld Norge - Apr 24 2013]
Register Guns, not Immigrants [Published American Thinker - Apr 21 2013]
Report: Limerick nuke plant evac plans may unde... [Published Pottsdown Mercury - Apr 21 2013]
Critical Report About FCC Draws Criticism Itself [Published 911 Dispatch - Apr 19 2013]
Ed Rubenstein on Yet Another Multibillion-Dolla... [Published VDare - Apr 17 2013]

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Good Data: The Foundation of Open Government [Published Brookings Up Front - May 22 2013] It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order , Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds ...
Good Data: The Foundation of Open Government [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 22 2013] It is not often one gets excited over a dry, hard-to-understand government memorandum, but the newly released executive order , Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and its accompanying memorandum are grounds ...
Breakthough in the War on Drugs?—Posner [Published The Becker-Posner Blog - May 05 2013] No, no breathrough. It’s true that earlier this week the White House released its “National Drug Control Strategy 2013,” heralded in some quarters as a breakthrough in national drug control strategy because it calls drug addiction a disease and promises ...
Checks Sent To Victims Of Foreclosure Fraud Are... [Published Think Progress - Apr 17 2013] Our guest blogger is Sarah Edelman, a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Could federal regulators and their cast of private contractors possibly do a worse job of getting relief to families who were wronged during the ...
Rep. Lloyd Doggett Introduces Three Excellent B... [Published Burnt Orange Report - Apr 15 2013] As Americans file their taxes today, Central Texas' own U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is introducing three bills to end corporate tax evasion alongside a Government Accountability Office report showing their massive growth. While questioning Treasury Secretary ...