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		<title>Transition 2008-2009 Blog Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the final entry to the IBM Center’s Presidential Transition 2008-2009 blog.  Following is an index of highlights from the 275 entries over the past two and a half years we’ve been writing.
But we’re not leaving!  The IBM Center for The Business of Government is expanding its blogging, post-presidential transition.  The new blog &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1598&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Is Waldo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is familiar with the anonymous military aide who follows the President everywhere carrying the codes to launch nuclear missile attacks. Less known is the anonymous archivist from the National Archives who tracks the President&#8217;s minute-by-minute meetings and phone calls.
These records are typically available to historians years later.  Well, President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;greater transparency&#8221; initiative has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1585&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Pay:  Here to Stay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not unlike the recent public healthcare debates, the mention of performance-based pay generates much passion.  The continued rollout of the Defense Department&#8217;s version of performance pay was put on hold at the beginning of the Obama Administration, pending a study.  That study is now out.  It is short and clear:  continue the pause, rethink some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1592&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Appointees: Not Yet Halfway There</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Seven months into his presidency, fewer than half of his top appointees are in place advancing his agenda,&#8221; notes Peter Baker in a New York Times story, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Team Is Lacking Most of Its Top Players.&#8221;
He goes on to say: &#8220;Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1571&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency in Contracting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government Executive&#8217;s Robert Brodsky says the Obama Administration plans to raise the bar on making more government contract information available in his article, &#8220;Administration Says It Is Committed to Posting Contracts Online.&#8221;
The public already has access to some details about government contract awards via www.USASpending.gov, which is a database of federal grants and contracts.  Even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1567&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update:  The White House Transition Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch yesterday with Martha Kumar, who helps run the White House Transition Project,  and she encouraged a visit to their website to see their &#8220;Six Month Review&#8221; of the Obama Administration&#8217;s transition.  You should visit also!
They&#8217;ve got a running tally of the status of presidential appointments as of the six-month point (55 percent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1561&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery Act: Six Months Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s USA Today cover story was bannered: &#8220;Poll: 57%  Don&#8217;t See Stimulus Working.&#8220;  People are so impatient! Today, it&#8217;s the Recovery Act&#8217;s 6-month birthday. And yesterday, Recovery Act recipients could start signing up so they can report their progress starting October 1st.  Maybe then, people will see what is really going on with their money!
According to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1551&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FY 2011 Budget:  Place-Based Policies</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/fy-2011-budget-place-based-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All politics is local,” goes the saying.  And that is particularly true when the government says the population will increase by 140 million by 2050.  Where will they all live, work, shop, and play?
The White House is developing a plan.  A little-noticed memo on place-based policies for the Fiscal Year 2011 budget – co-signed by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1547&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Efforts to Engage the Public</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healthcare reform debates raging across the country in townhalls and on-line, all show that Americans do want to actively engage in their government.  Obama’s Open Government Directive, which is still under development, intends to expand public involvement.  But various agencies are already jumping in.
The Environmental Protection Agency has long been a leader in engaging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1543&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FY 2011 Budget:  Obama Science Spending</title>
		<link>http://transition2008.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/fy-2011-budget-obama-science-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kamensky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agencies got their budget marching instructions from the Office of Management and Budget back on June 11th, but the science agencies (NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, etc.) have recently received additional guidance.
Ben Bain, in a Federal Computer Week story, “Agencies Told to Target Money for Tech Projects,” says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=transition2008.wordpress.com&blog=800046&post=1539&subd=transition2008&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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