Mission Statement

It's kind of hard to believe that Government Executive is 40 years old, but Tom has a really nice column in this month's issue looking back at a bit of our history. This part of it really got to me:

Government Executive was founded on the notion that the people who serve in high-ranking positions in the executive branch are worthy of being treated with the same respect and deserve the same high-quality journalism as America's corporate elite. It has been, and remains, our privilege to serve an audience whose work is so critical to the nation's future.

I will freely admit that before I came to work at GovExec I did not know a ton about how government worked, and I was more interested in the process of politics than of government. Now, I've become a total good-government bore. I'm pretty sure my friends, family, and the editors I freelance for at other publications are sick of me talking about how government management is Secretly the Most Urgent Challenge Our Nation Faces, but I'm glad for the transformation.