Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Civil servant awards get DOGE’d - POLITICO

The Partnership for Public Service’s four honorees this year are: 

Gharun Lacy, Department of State, for finding and stopping a cyberattack by Chinese-tied hackers on the department’s email accounts. 

James Szykman, EPA, for working with NASA on its satellite to track and address air pollution. 

Jill Frisch, formerly of the IRA, for litigating cases against multinational companies that led to the recovery of billions of tax dollars. 

Ransom Baldwin, Curtis Van Tassell and Paul VanRaden, Department of Agriculture, for using DNA research and genetic testing to change dairy cattle breeding, resulting in better milk production and animal health...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/federal-workforce-doge-awards-00906586


 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Eli Frost: How I Moved My Graduation Out of a Megachurch | FFRF Conventi...

Minnesota student Eli Frost receives FFRF’s Beverly & Richard Hermsen Student Activist Award after leading a successful campaign to move Chaska High School’s graduation from a discriminatory megachurch to a secular venue. Eli shares how he organized petitions, worked the media, collaborated with FFRF’s legal team, weathered a setback and ultimately walked at a church-free ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7umzyc_0hQ

 

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Far-right US thinktank to give award to extremist sheriff leading ‘disaster’ office | Republicans | The Guardian

Bianco is a defendant in at least half a dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of people who died while incarcerated in Riverside county's jail system, including three filed last month, according to media reports and federal court records…







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