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Agencies finding it hard to follow through on open government order Mar 10, 2010 The first steps were easy: Most agencies met the first deadline of President Obama's December directive to launch open government Web sites within 60 days. Post a Comment Recommend Short-staffed agency overseeing high-speed-rail effort draws fire The federal agency in charge of $8 billion in economic stimulus spending on high-speed-rail projects doesn't have the staff or expertise to properly oversee the money, government investigators and congressional critics say. Pentagon panel has contractor contacts More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon's latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA Today analysis shows. (1) Agriculture to merge Forest Service programs The Agriculture Department's Forest Service plans to merge three programs next year to better protect forests against the effects of climate change. NTSB asks to monitor pilots' talk in cockpits Government investigators are making an unprecedented push to use "black box" voice recordings to routinely monitor pilots' conversations and make sure cockpit crews are focusing on their jobs.		Most Popular Stories Today Past Week Past Month Industry group warns against wanton contractor cuts at DHS (92) News Briefs (92) NTEU's top priority: collective bargaining at TSA (91) Short-staffed agency overseeing high-speed-rail effort draws fire (65) Survey: Detroit has best large airport (61) News Briefs (827) New studies reinforce dire outlook for USPS (551) Postal Service seeks 5-day delivery (536) Lawmaker seeks info on increase in federal pay (472) 143 Bush administration appointees ‘burrowed in' in second term (454) News Briefs (3042) Obama nominees get released from senator's holds (1305) DHS tightening controls on its travel (1255) Government is incapable of containing a large cyber attack, experts agree (1252) 10,000 TSA staff to get secret intel (1123) Tell Us About Labor-management partnerships What changes, good or bad, do you foresee from President Barack Obama’s executive order to re-establish labor-management partnerships? Send your comments to Staff Writer Stephen Losey.
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