A Civil Servant’s Suicide: Responses to the Outpost 1

Because this has been copied from a cached page, the formatting is messed up. I am trying to fix it. The original Billings Outpost comments are lost, except for this cache file.
Marlene Braun’s suicide
by Kathy Hermes at 2005/08/26 05:49:35 GMT-6

Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
Thank you for your story about Marlene Braun’s death and the BLM. As her [...]

Fault Lines from the Daily Kos

Fault Lines
by KAMuston
Fri May 11, 2007 at 03:34:25 AM PST

I had begun to believe the GOP was never going to explain reality to George, and then came the breathless reports of Republican moderates finally putting their courage to the sticking place and telling Georgie-Porgie the truth. But, after six years of make-believe, I doubt the [...]

The Healthy Workplace Bill: Marlene’s Law?

This is testimony submitted by Dr. Katherine Hermes, the Trustee of the Living Trust of Marlene A. Braun, to the Connecticut Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee in 2008.

Testimony provided at Senate Hearing, February [...]

Bush’s War on Civil Servants: Marlene Braun

November 28, 2005
Bush’s War On Civil Servants
Nick Turse has been putting together a list of those who have resigned or lost their job under the Bush administration because they disagreed with or refused to carry out a bankrupt Bush policy. Soon, he and Tom Englehardt plan to have an online Wall to honor those who [...]

BLM Biologist Exposes Inside View Of Agency Priorities

This is a view expressed by another employee of the BLM, written up by Todd Wilkinson, published in New West.
BLM Biologist Exposes Inside View Of Agency Priorities
By Todd Wilkinson, 3-02-06

I often say to friends when they quiz me about details in a story I’ve written: Ninety-percent of what I actually know does not find its [...]

Oil exploration firm looks at nature preserve

Oil exploration firm looks at nature preserve
With crude at $100, there’s more pressure than ever for seismic testing on San Luis Obispo grassland
By David Whitney
dwhitney@mcclatchydc.com
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Published: Sunday, Mar. 02, 2008 | Page 4A
WASHINGTON – The fight over cattle grazing at Carrizo Plain National Monument is nearing [...]

BLM Right to Suspend Employee

In this article in The Bakersfield Californian, the newspaper reported a version of the investigative report produced by the Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General, based on a letter the IG wrote condensing the report. At the time, the entire report was not released. The interim-final report (no final report has ever been [...]

A civil servant’s suicide ripples across West

This is the first of Todd Wilkinson’s articles printed in the Billings Outpost. His two articles received hundreds of comments, now lost because the Billings archives were disabled. The entries about Marlene disappeared long before the Outpost itself reconfigured its archives. I have recovered the comments from a cached document and posted them in a [...]

Readers Vent Back Over BLM Suicide

This blog post copies the original Todd Wilkinson’s second article no longer available on its original site: The Billings Outpost. The Outpost had accumulated hundreds of comments on Marlene’s death as a result of two articles by Wilkinson, but the links to the archives were disabled.
Readers vent back over BLM suicide
By © Todd Wilkinson
I hope [...]

BLM Suicide Underscores Bureaucratic Inhumanity

This is a reprint from a news release by PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) regarding Marlene Braun’s suicide:
For Immediate Release: April 30, 2007
Contact: Jeff Ruch (202) 265-7337
BLM SUICIDE UNDERSCORES BUREAUCRATIC INHUMANITY — Inspector General Reports and Workplace Survey Show Imploding Interior Morale
Washington, DC — Bureaucratic indifference and official callousness contributed to a suicide by [...]