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In a guest opinion, Mark Hinkle argues why Menlo Park City School District voters should oppose Measure B, a parcel tax increase on the November ballot.

Voters will decide the fate of a proposed parcel tax that Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD) officials say is needed to keep its programming afloat, retain teachers and keep class sizes small.

Social Security Overwhelmed by Mail, Infuriating Customers Seeking Documents With most employees teleworking during the pandemic, the watchdog faulted the agency for not having a system to track and return customers’ identification documents. The Social Security Administration is struggling with a backlog of thousands of unprocessed eligibility documents and half of field offices report being "overwhelmed" by mail as a result of the agencys inability to adequately manage mail process...

The Washington Post, industry paper for the company town whose monopoly is national politics, pulls no punches: Ousted Social Security commissioner Andrew Saul, the Trump appointee who declared Friday he would defy his firing by President Biden, on Monday found his access to agency computers cut off, even as his acting replacement moved to undo his policies. “I’m here to do the job,” Saul said from his home in Katonah, N.Y., where he had led the agency since the coronavirus pandemic forc...

Mike Risk didn’t need confirmation that his eggplant parmesan was good. For twelve years he ran the kitchen of Trattoria Marcella, one of the city’s...

TriggerMesh Recognized in May 2021 Gartner Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing report Share Article Cloud Native Integration Platform provides solutions for Multi-Cloud Users We are delighted to see organizations building cloud native applications on Kubernetes with both our integration-as-code approach for DevOps and our low-code, self-service portal for any enterprise. - Mark Hinkle, CEO, TriggerMesh RALEIGH, N.C. AND GENEVA (PRWEB) ...

The pandemic abruptly closed the agency’s 1,200 offices, and officials are considering how to move forward. One issue: Without the offices, fewer low-income seniors sought benefits.

The change would represent a massive cultural shift for the country’s largest employer, which has historically lagged behind the private sector when it comes to telework options.

Print As the Biden administration contemplates how to return the massive federal workforce to the office, government officials are moving to make a pandemic experiment permanent by allowing more employees than ever to work from home - a sweeping cultural change that would have been unthinkable a year ago. The shift across the government, whose details are still being finalized, comes after the risk-averse federal bureaucracy had fallen behind private companies when it came to embracing telewor...

Print As the Biden administration contemplates how to return the massive federal workforce to the office, government officials are moving to make a pandemic experiment permanent by allowing more employees than ever to work from home - a sweeping cultural change that would have been unthinkable a year ago. The shift across the government, whose details are still being finalized, comes after the risk-averse federal bureaucracy had fallen behind private companies when it came to embracing telewor...