Interest in Foreign Service jobs soars

• Louis Jacobson
• October 24, 2001

Praise for agencies may not translate into new recruits

• Louis Jacobson
• October 23, 2001

Postal Service weighs new needs in bioterror fallout

• Louis Jacobson
• October 17, 2001

Effort to promote public service to be launched next month

• Louis Jacobson
• September 28, 2001

Federal employees continue work with a new perspective

As agencies begin the process of trying to return to normal operations in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks, there is a pervasive sense that nothing will ever be quite the same.

• Louis Jacobson
• September 14, 2001

Author on Oklahoma City reflects on impact of attacks

• Louis Jacobson
• September 12, 2001

Dems call GOP leader's bluff on patients' bill of rights for feds

Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., may have simply been trying to make a point when he introduced a measure that would make a proposed patients' bill of rights apply to federal employees, but now Democrats are saying they back the idea.

• Louis Jacobson
• August 17, 2001

Veteran defense reporter foresees radical change in military

• Louis Jacobson
• August 9, 2001

Public relations firms take a second look at federal clients

With the economic slowdown hurting prospects for new high-tech and corporate clients, Washington’s public relations firms are turning to a line of business many of them once shunned: contracts from the federal government.

• Louis Jacobson
• August 6, 2001

'Perfect storm' slowing political appointments, scholar says

• Louis Jacobson
• August 3, 2001

Federal employees aren't the only ones waiting for appointees to be confirmed

• Shawn Zeller and Louis Jacobson
• July 30, 2001

Two dozen agencies review Mexican border bridge

How many federal agencies does it take to approve a bridge?

• Louis Jacobson
• July 20, 2001

Commerce Department

• Peter H. Stone, Neil Munro and Louis Jacobson
• June 28, 2001

Lobbyists try to stave off Treasury bureau bid to print foreign money

• Louis Jacobson
• June 19, 2001

Postal Service finds creative ways to lobby Congress

It can't play by the same lobbying rules as private corporations. So the U.S. Postal Service has special ways of getting its point across in Washington.

• Louis Jacobson
• June 11, 2001

Companies gear up to fight service contracting law

• Louis Jacobson
• March 26, 2001

Publishers plan massive lobbying effort against postal rate hike

• Louis Jacobson
• March 2, 2001

Congress may torpedo ergonomics regulations

• Louis Jacobson
• February 2, 2001

House chair to take on contract bundling, businesslike agencies

• Louis Jacobson
• January 11, 2001

As election fight drags on, Clinton appointees ponder next moves

• Alexis Simendinger and Louis Jacobson
• December 11, 2000