The Business of Government Hour

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The Business of Government Hour features a conversation about management with a government executive who is changing the way government does business. The executives discuss their careers and the management challenges facing their organizations. Past government executives include Administrators, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Commissioners, Controllers, Directors, and Undersecretaries.

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Kathleen Merrigan

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 - 12:01
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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
Radio show date: 
Sat, 12/31/2011
Guest: 
Kathleen Merrigan
Intro text: 
Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
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Kathleen Merrigan 09 15 2011 A
Kathleen Merrigan 09 15 2011 B
Kathleen Merrigan 09 15 2011 C
Kathleen Merrigan 09 15 2011 D
Kathleen Merrigan 09 15 2011 ABCD
1 comments

Greetings, I happened on the Business of Government radio interview with Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan late one night and was immediately impressed by the quality of both the interviewer and the interviewee neither of whom I knew of till the break and names were given.
Dr Merrigan is one of the most verbally fluent, articulate coherent and informed government representative I have ever heard. Even though on my way to another radio program I stayed to hear the whole interview. Agriculture is in any event a topic I care about, and I am fortunate to live in a Berkshire County, MA, (Congressman Olver's district ) the community of which has a dedicated and progressive relationship to it's agriculture. Robin Van Eyn who created the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, here in Sheffield, was a close friend and just today I had a conversation with some young people from the latest CSA: fairly recent college graduates who miraculosly have chosen to band together and start a farm in Sheffield.
I am deeply grateful for the younger generation who are turning to agriculture - many without prior family farms in their background. (Perhaps ignorance is bliss in this case!).
Thank you for providing this service. I will be exploring other topics
Ann M. Condon
Great Barrington

09/22/2011 - 19:11

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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.

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