The check above looks a little different then the one we mailed last week to pay our car insurance (the wife recently got checks featuring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow), but is actually the one the United States used to pay the Russians for Alaska in 1868. The U.S. paid a cool $7.2 million for the 600,000 square mile territory that celebrated its 62nd birthday yesterday as the country’s 49th state. More on the purchase of Alaska …
HP’s Christina Morrison knows a thing or two about telework …
TSA’s top catches of the year, including snakes, C4 and some land mines (insert “Snakes on a Plane” joke here) …
In case you missed it, USDA’s top social media stories of the year …
21 issues taking shape for the Army in 2012 …
Three new suggested searches on FederalRegister.gov …
Some interesting numbers from NIST …
Preventing abuse of interagency contracts …
NHTSA safety record shines, says DOT Secretary Ray LaHood …
OSTP Director John Holdren’s favorite places …
Guard Bureau Chief Joins Joint Chiefs of Staff …
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