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NEWS: Dec. 22, 2016 Efficiency | The Nation GAO: Here's How Agencies Can Handle Big Budget Cuts The Government Accountability Office is offering some pointers on how federal agencies can better handle severe budget cuts, examining where some offices succeeded and failed during sequestration's forced reductions. The GAO's auditors found three main strategies that helped, or would have helped, the agencies better handle and adjust to the spending decreases. >> Government Executive Public Finance | New York State Ex-Pension Official Accused of Taking Bribes Navnoor Kang, a former portfolio manager who was responsible for investing $53 billion in state employee-retirement funds, took over $100,000 in bribes in exchange for steering more than $2 billion in fixed-income business to two brokers, earning them and their firms millions of dollars in commissions, federal authorities said. >> New York Times $3.6 Million Found Missing from Miami Beach Account About $3.6 million is missing from one of Miami Beach's bank accounts, leaving administrators and authorities scrambling to figure out how it happened, who did it and why no one noticed earlier. >> Miami Herald
N.C. Official Tapped to Lead Missouri Corrections Department Incoming Gov. Eric Greitens named a North Carolina woman with a career in probation and parole to be the director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, an agency beset by widespread harassment and discrimination complaints. Greitens announced that he'd chosen Anne Precythe, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety's community supervision director. >> Kansas City Star Trump Names White House Counselor, Trade Advisers President-elect Donald Trump named his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway to serve as counselor to the president in his incoming administration. Trump also named billionaire investor Carl Icahn and vocal China critic Peter Navarro, a University of California-Irvine business professor, as high-level trade advisers. >> Politico, Washington Post Chicago Mayor Releases Private Emails, Bans Practice After fighting in court to keep his private email accounts concealed from public view, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a trove of messages from his nearly six years in office and announced a new city ban on using private email to conduct official business. >> Chicago Sun-Times Texas Sheriff Who Was Being Investigated Found Dead Erath County, Texas, Sheriff Tommy Bryant, who was reportedly being investigated for cheating on his continuing-education training, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> Dallas Morning News
Inaugural Farecard Won't Feature Image of Trump The regional transit system released the image of 2017's Inauguration Day SmarTrip farecard, and there's one noteworthy omission: any mention of President-elect Donald Trump. That's a change from the past two Inauguration Days, when President Obama's smiling face beamed from the cards. Metro said there's a simple reason Trump is not similarly featured: It requested permission from the campaign "but received no response." >> Washington Post Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars Off San Francisco Streets Uber pulled its self-driving Volvos off the roads in San Francisco on Wednesday as the Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the cars' registrations. The ride-hailing company had angered state and local officials by refusing to get a permit to operate the self-driving cars. >> San Francisco Chronicle
Chattanooga College President to Lead University System's Board Gov. Bill Haslam recommended Flora Tydings to lead the Tennessee Board of Regents as the state's largest college system goes through a massive overhaul designed by the governor's office. Tydings has been president of Chattanooga State Community College since July 2015 and previously served as president of a technical college in Georgia for more than a decade. >> The Tennessean Accounting Firm to Probe U. of Louisville Foundation The University of Louisville and the U of L Foundation have jointly hired an international forensic accounting firm to investigate the foundation's convoluted and troubled finances. >> Louisville Courier-Journal >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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$1.2 million This year's Kansas Lottery deficit, marking the sixth year in a row the lottery has run in the red despite bringing in a record $170.6 million in net profit this year and a gap resulting from the state's public pension fund and legislature taking more in lottery revenue than the games brought in >> Wichita Eagle | More data VIEWPOINT Higher Education | Sheldon Whitehouse The Threat of Fake Science America's universities are home, more than any other place in our country, to the enterprise of science. So when a threat looms over the enterprise of science, the universities that are its home need to help address it. The threat is simple: The fossil-fuel industry has adopted and powered up infrastructure and methods that were originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. That effort has coalesced into a large, adaptive and well-camouflaged apparatus that aspires to mimic and rival legitimate science. >> Inside Higher Ed PLUS: Pete Mackey on higher ed's post-election voice. >> Inside Higher Ed | More commentaries QUOTABLE “No jerks, no whiners, no peacocks.” David S. Cohen, who spent six years at the Treasury Department before becoming deputy director of the CIA and who also is the vice president for leadership and innovation at the Partnership for Public Service, quoting the inscription on rubber bracelets that were given out by former treasury secretary Tim Geithner in describing how he tries to model the behavior he expects from others >> Washington Post | More quotes UPCOMING EVENTS American Society for Public Administration BookTalk webinar: "America, the Owner's Manual: You Can Fight City Hall--and Win" Jan. 4, 1 p.m. ET Brookings Institution Address by Lawrence H. Summers, paper release and discussions: "From Bridges to Education: Best Bets for Public Investment" Jan. 9, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Enterprise Institute Book discussion: "Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance" Jan. 9, noon-1 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation Book discussion: "Waging Insurgent Warfare: Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State" Jan. 10, 11 a.m.-noon ET, Washington, D.C. Urban Institute Discussions: "Housing Policy Past and Future: Lessons Learned through the Crisis and the Path Forward" Jan. 11, 6-8 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Society for Public Administration Webinar: "How to Support Decisions in Health Care" Jan. 17, 2 p.m. ET Government Technology Webinar: "From Road Building to Riots: How the City of Charlotte, N.C., Uses Social Media to Communicate in Both Good Times and Bad" Jan. 18, 2 p.m. ET American Society for Public Administration BookTalk webinar: "Public Policymaking by Private Organizations" Jan. 24, 1 p.m. ET American Society for Public Administration Annual Conference March 17-21, Atlanta Association for Talent Development International Conference and Exposition May 21-24, Atlanta |
