Condolences to Melissa Turley's Family and LRP

I got the sad news this morning that Melissa Turley, a reporter for LRP Publications, who covered the same federal workforce beat that I did for a variety of publications in the company, passed away on December 16. I wanted to extend my condolences, and the sympathies of all of us here at Government Executive, to her family, and to her coworkers at LRP.

The federal workforce beat is a small place. You spend years going to the same events with the same small group of people, you end up getting to know them, or at least a good sense of them. And even though you're competitors, it's a collegial group. Melissa was an excellent reporter, who regularly asked questions I wished I'd thought of. Those of us who regularly saw her at the Office of Personnel Management, or Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board meetings, or on the Hill, will miss her.