Public CommentRCPP Interim Rule CounterintuitiveComments to the NRCS regarding the Regional Conservation Partnership Program
In The News, Covid-19The government has earmarked billions to help farmers. There will be winners and losers.Quick-fix programs to get billions to farmers, like the trade-war bailouts and PPP, have come with complications, critics say.
COVID-19 AnalysisHEROES Act Directs More Payments for Agriculture House bill provides unnecessary expansions to executive power.
In The NewsTrump administration cuts royalty payments for oil companiesCritics contend that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management move has been done with little oversight.
O&G BailoutFederal Royalty Relief – Data & AnalysisRoyalty relief for oil and gas companies operating on federal lands is the latest in a series of bailouts for the industry
Big Oil BailoutNo Relief for Taxpayers: BLM Fast-Tracking Royalty GiveawaysThe Bureau of Land Management sent out guidance to oil and gas operators on how to pay less in royalties to taxpayers.
Weekly WastebasketCelebrating 25 years of Making Government Work (Better)A quarter century of watch dog successes.
Rolling Analysis, FY21 Budget Homeland Security Budget Request – Identity Crisis Alert: Secret Service is Shuttling Back Across Town to the Treasury Department
Op-Ed, In The NewsTropical Storm Imelda shows, once again, urgent need for reform of National Flood Insurance Program
Weekly WastebasketThanksgiving Budget RetortsHow to survive a fact-free Thanksgiving and still be grateful for friends and family.
F-35Marine Corps Force Design Initiatives ReleasedWill Congressional Stakeholders Allow their Oxen to be Gored? How about that F-35?
Op-Ed, Sole-Source ContractingWhy do so many Pentagon projects go so far over budget? The Jetsons explain.
In The NewsNew legislation would ban oil leasing on public land with little to no potential for development
In the NewsThe Tongass National Forest is a Wilderness on the Chopping BlockThe Tongass is a hunting and fishing paradise and supports a massive tourism economy. So why are we planning to log it?
