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      <title>Digital Services: Why Government Websites Fail and What Actually Fixes Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Documented digital-government turnarounds — GOV.UK, Healthcare.gov, Estonia's X-Road — share one pattern: a named team with authority, measured on task completion.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:56:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Asha Venkataswamy</dc:creator>
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      <title>Federal Permitting: The Backlog Now Has an Owner and a Clock</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 2023 fiscal law set two-year permitting targets and named lead agencies for major projects. What changed, what the first dashboard data show, and what to watch.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>Ranked-Choice Voting: How the Count Actually Works</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No candidate wins on election night without a majority. Here is the round-by-round mechanism that decides the winner, and why it can take days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:47:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>James Wellington</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Automatic Stay: How a Bid Protest Freezes a Contract</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A losing bidder's protest to the Government Accountability Office can stop a federal contract cold. The mechanism runs on two statutes, a 100-day clock, and a narrow set of overrides.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:47:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>Continuing Resolutions: How Stopgap Funding Actually Works</title>
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      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>Bid Protests: How the 100-Day Clock Actually Works</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A protest freezes a federal contract award long before GAO rules on the merits — the automatic stay, not the final decision, is usually what determines the outcome.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:47:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Redistricting Commissions: How They&apos;re Built, and Why States Are Bypassing Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nine states hand congressional map-drawing to citizens instead of legislators. California and Texas just showed how a legislature gets around one anyway.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:47:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Valentina Sokolov</dc:creator>
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      <title>FedRAMP: How a Cloud Service Gets Federal Authorization</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The certification is central; the authority to operate is not. A step-by-step look at what a FedRAMP package proves, what the statute obliges agencies to reuse, and where the process still stalls.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:47:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Asha Venkataswamy</dc:creator>
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      <title>Small Business Set-Asides: How the Rule of Two Works</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A single market-research finding decides whether a federal contract is reserved for small firms — here is the threshold, the math, and the paperwork that follows.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>James Wellington</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Evidence Act, Seven Years On: Slow Progress, Real Infrastructure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 2018 Evidence Act built real data infrastructure — chief data officers, learning agendas, inventories — while data quality and evaluation capacity lag.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Asha Venkataswamy</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why State Unemployment Systems Can&apos;t Finish Modernizing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A decade of federal grants meant to retire decades-old jobless-benefits code ran into staffing gaps and contracting delays, then a 2025 funding cancellation forced states to rescale projects mid-build.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:47:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Christopher Lee</dc:creator>
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      <title>Fixed-Price or Cost-Plus: The Contract-Type Decision Explained</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The FAR contract-type ladder explained: who carries cost risk, when cost-reimbursement is legitimate, why fee-on-cost invites abuse, and the banned rung.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>James Wellington</dc:creator>
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      <title>September&apos;s Rule Surge: Why the Federal Register Balloons Each Fall</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Asha Venkataswamy</dc:creator>
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      <title>From Spoils to Merit: Civil Service Reform&apos;s Long Arc</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Trust fell from 77 percent in 1964 to under a quarter today — what the surveys really measure, what moves trust, and why service beats messaging.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why routine benefits arrive in days while emergency payments waited weeks: payment rails, unbanked last miles, and the FedNow modernization push.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Asha Venkataswamy</dc:creator>
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