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Tony Bennett: More Than a ‘Crooner’

July 24, 2023 more, than, Tony, Bennett, ‘Crooner’0 comment

It was in the early ’60s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if I’d like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett. For several hours we cruised past some of Washington’s most famous landmarks. Tony let me take a picture of him, shirtless and with a big smile on his face. He later signed it and I have kept it framed in my office ever since. Bennett,…

Why federal employees are watching the political landscape more than ever

March 22, 2023 than, employees, landscape, watching, Political, ever, more, federal0 comment

If you wonder why federal employees worry, along with everyone else, consider: mini financial crises, a stubbornly bear stock market, no breakthroughs on Social Security solvency, and the debt-ceiling debate dragging out. For one point of view, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with John Hatton, vice president for Policy at the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE). Interview transcript: Tom Temin People are concerned. I actually had a reader write to me asking, well, our TSP funds insured? Unfortunately, no. And nobody’s investments are insured yet,…

Election Integrity 2022 in Review: More Improvements Than Damage

January 5, 2023 more, than, Damage, Integrity, improvements, 2022, Election, Review0 comment

As state legislatures begin their 2023 sessions, Americans should know what their states did in 2022 to improve or damage the integrity of the election process. They can now easily do that because 2022 marks the second year that The Heritage Foundation has tracked and scored the laws and regulations of every state and the District of Columbia that bear on the conduct and integrity of elections. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) The Election Integrity Scorecard scores the security and reliability of elections on…

Biden spent more presidential time in Delaware than Trump did at Mar-a-Lago

October 17, 2022 Biden, more, than, Time, Trump, Spent, Delaware, MaraLago, Presidential0 comment

WILMINGTON, Del. — President Biden has spent more than a quarter of his time in office on getaways to his home state of Delaware, surpassing former President Donald Trump’s highly criticized time away from the White House. The Washington Times stories: White House

Meet the guy who oversaw the recovery of more than a billion dollars of stolen pandemic relief

September 11, 2022 Billion, Meet, relief, stolen, recovery, Dollar's, Pandemic, oversaw, more, than0 comment

Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The government showed how fast it could spend money when Congress printed trillions for pandemic relief. Well, now it’s the morning after. Our next guest led a nationwide criminal investigation that so far has clawed back more than a billion dollars anyway, awarded to frauds under the Paycheck Protection Program and prevented maybe twice that much from going out in the first place. He’s an assistant special agent in charge with the…

Iowa Is Closer Than Ever to Losing Its Place

April 12, 2022 ever, closer, Iowa, than, Losing, Place0 comment

Every few years for the past four decades, Iowa’s prime placement in American politics has come under threat. The arguments against Iowa’s outsize role in choosing each party’s nominee for president are always the same: The state is too white—90.6 percent white, to be exact—making it completely unrepresentative of the American electorate. Caucuses are messy and volunteer-led, meaning that the process is vulnerable to all kinds of problems (see the great caucus disaster of 2020). Plus, it’s cold as hell in February in Iowa, not exactly the weather most conducive…