Just Do It

Often, the best (and most overlooked) examples of effective civil servants in action involve not begging for legislation or unveiling flashy new programs, but simply rolling up your sleeves and working together to get the job done. There was a great story on this phenomenon in the NY Times yesterday. "With little fanfare and some adept bureaucratic maneuvering, a partnership between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and a select group of Justice Department prosecutors has been forged to identify and single out for prosecution the nation's most flagrant workplace safety violators," the paper reported.