People

Making a mail call

A Legal View: USPS officials should look to the Internet as an opportunity to redefine universal service

Acquisition

Giving states access

A Legal View: It's clearly time for Congress to revisit the cooperative purchasing issue.

Digital Government

New hope for spam relief

A Legal View: The real problem is unscrupulous people who foist repugnant material on people who don't want it

Digital Government

Will privacy be protected?

A Legal View: Some exceptions to the Privacy Act are big enough to drive a truck through

Modernization

Shirking 911 duties

A Legal View: GAO has made it harder for local governments to raise money

People

National ID card debate

A Legal View: The problems a national ID card would cause outweigh the benefits

Digital Government

Suspended from contracting

A Legal View: The effect of suspensions is automatic and far-reaching.

Digital Government

E-mail archives in court

E-mail archives in court

People

Outsourcing anarchy

A Legal View: Changing the law to allow federal employees to challenge outsourcing decisions would inevitably lead to chaos

Digital Government

Cyber name-calling

A Legal View: The primary issue is whether the a domain name is confusingly similar to the original

Digital Government

Directors on the hook

corporate directors can't resign at the first sign of trouble.

Digital Government

Executive privilege

A Legal View: It's past time to release the energy policy group records

People

Documents at your disposal

A Legal View: There must be evidence of a consistently followed document retention policy

Digital Government

Is Posse Comitatus passe?

A Legal View: If a situation presents an appropriate job for police, it's an inappropriate job for the military

Digital Government

Clearing online arteries

A Legal View: Dealing with junk e-mail costs billions of dollars in productive time annually

Digital Government

Export controls

A Legal View column: Access to many computer networks is restricted to ?U.S. persons? only

Digital Government

Beware hazard compensation

Contractors should review contracts for coverage of loss due to military actions

People

The rights of reservists

Column: Under USERRA, an employer may not discriminate against an employee called to military service

Digital Government

Contingency contracting

It is a sign of how well our system works that even in a crisis, the rules for government operations keep meeting our needs

Digital Government

8(a) nod for native groups

Special rules give ?native American? companies a huge advantage over other 8(a) concerns