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Email: How can the two Washingtons be so out of sync?
The federal governments’ Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra is a maniac who must be stopped. He is working tirelessly, night and day to attack information technology inefficiencies in government...
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Tough economy? I’ll take 773 new laptops for $1.8 million.
Obsolete before the box is open? The Department of Labor & Industries can’t be an easy agency to manage and I don’t have anything other than appreciation for the complex work that their...
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Thoughtful, forceful pushback over L&I’s 773 laptops
The driving passion of my work in the Legislature is a belief that we need courageous honesty in our policies, our politics and our approach to transparency in state government. And we desperately...
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Want government reform? Idea #3: A new public safety communication strategy
Have you ever noticed how police officers carry both a cellular phone and a hand-held radio? It might surprise you to learn that you are paying hundreds of times more for the radio than the cell...
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Open government is often more theory than reality
In theory, few ideas have more fans than transparency in government. Left, right and middle all decry the need for more transparency in how government spends money, collects revenues, makes rules and...
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Employment Security Dep’t: Some help for the unemployed
It may not come as a surprise to those of you who follow my scrutiny of our state’s $2 billion a biennium in technology spending, but the Department of Employment Security, the state agency charged...
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When boring health data isn’t boring.
Image by Adam Bindslev, http://www.adambindslev.dk For two years I have aggressively agitated from the back bench against the institutional infrastructure of state government’s inefficient use of $2...
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Moore’s Law is veto-proof
It’s with a sense of disappointment that I share the news that last week the Governor vetoed an audit of the $268 million Wheeler State Data Center that I included in SB 5931 with the strong support...
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The march of radical innovation
Eighteen years ago, fresh from completing my two-year master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School at Harvard and bursting with student loans, I began my private sector career as...
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Reflections on Public Service: Nation’s first CIO Vivek Kundra
Most of my summer days are filled with exciting work in the software industry, playing with my kids and the joys of family vacations. But on the front porch in the evening, looking out over the...
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