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Today’s NY Times.
Front page on nytimes.com:
The Weather Service Had a Plan to Reinvent Itself. Did DOGE Stop It?
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“Brian LaMarre spent a decade as the meteorologist in charge of the forecast office in Tampa, Fla., before taking a job last year that had him planning the next modernization phase of the Weather Service. “Not every office needs to do the day-to-day forecasting,” Mr. LaMarre said. “It gets pretty redundant.”
The haphazard layoffs have forced the department to accelerate what he called a mutual-aid concept, where offices can trade tasks based on which has better staffing. He described an agency in “survival mode” now, trying to implement what was meant to be a multiyear plan almost overnight.
But Mr. LaMarre isn’t around to implement it; he’s one of the hundreds who left this spring.”
