Trick-or-Treat? How about treat? Today we will start doing a post every Saturday on GovGab. Instead of our normal posts though, we will take turns posting about important government information from the previous week and even preview some things we find interesting for the upcoming week. With no further ado here are our inaugural weekly picks:

Have a great weekend and we’ll be back on Monday!

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  14. Medicare, Adult Immunizations For our third birthday we launched the Share Your Story: GovGab Guest Writer Challenge. We’re proud to showcase our winning posts, which will run this whole week. Krista Cook has four higher-education degrees, three in government (B.A., M.P.A., and Ph.D) and she recently finished up a fourth in library/information science (M.L.S.) at Emporia State University. […]...
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