Oak Park’s own Danny Davis (D.-IL) and a senator (D.-somewhere else) have apparently helped find the answer to our problems:
The Office of Personnel Management plans to establish a new centralized office to oversee Senior Executive Service policies and standards and help agencies improve their recruitment and mentoring programs.
Nancy Kichak, associate director of OPMs strategic human resources division, told Federal Times Wednesday that the office will be similar to one proposed in bills introduced by Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., and will consolidate operations that are now scattered throughout OPM.
This will be one location, one office that folks can go to if they want answers on SES or senior level and scientific or technical [SL/ST position] issues, Kichak said. In the past, folks have expressed confusion over whether to call [OPMs] operational office or the policy office, and now theyll know to just call the SES office.
And folks are grateful, believe me. It’s just another step towards heaven on earth, when there will be one location, one office where we can find answers to EVERYTHING! Soon we will know to just call THAT OFFICE!
O happy day.
Blithe Spirit 
Zounds, you mean the “government” might actually be able to provide Oak Park a real service and do something right….I’m not sure of there, but here in Park Ridge there are large numbers of citizens who loathe government (calling it either Fascist or Socialist depending on their mood at the moment!)…yet these are the same folks who count on their city government to inspect our restaurants, repair our streets, pick up our garbage, keep our schools open for our kids, provide emergency services 24/7….whenever I — an obvious menace to our fair city– ask them why they use such a loathsome institution, I get looks! Never answers! Jim, maybe you can help me learn what I’m saying wrong here….?
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Are you unduly harsh in saying mood swings motivate critics of your position?
Also: Davis is Oak Park’s own, as for all municipalities of Illinois’ 7th district. Not sure from your comment that you understood that.
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Thanks, Jim. That helps. Still, I am of the mind that while Oak Park has shifted socially & politically over the last few generations, much less so here in un-diverse Park Ridge. Great place to live….but not always to change. My letters-to-the-editor over the years have been my way of playing the loyal opposition. I wonder if they’d make it into the Oak Leaves?
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Zounds !! (Twice) The proper province of Government is to do those things that are necessary to keep us safe, to protect the country and its beneficial institutions, to give us the incentive and opportuity to learn and improve ourselves, and a VERY FEW other society-wide BENEFITS. Beyond that, I learned when I was growing up on the farm that the only other thing to be desired was TO BE LET THE HELL ALONE !!! OUR TOWNSHIP MOTTO (IF WE HAD HAD ONE) WOULD HAVE BEEN “STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR FACE.”
We had no faith in experts. We knew when to sow and when to reap, how to get milk and how to breed horses, and whether the Preaccher really had anything worthwhile to say.. When the War (WWII)came, we had known for quite a while that Hitler was a thorough-going bastard (actualy an S.O.B.) and that something had to be done about him and his Nazi gang. ooo — then we went and done that something.
For most things that came up as prolems, we figured that if we worked hard enough and stuck with the effort, we could get it (whatever it was) fixed. That was true of the (sometimes) ailing MOdel “A” Ford, or the much more serious lack of rain. Finally, we figured if we cojldn’t get it done ourselves, it pro bab ly couldn ‘t be done anyway. The exception was serious illness (e.g.infantile paralysis) wich Doc Springer called poliomyelitis. We didn’t know what the term realaly meant
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