Homeland Security cancels some newspaper, magazine subscriptions

[The Straight Story]

Homeland Security cancels some newspaper, magazine subscriptions
By Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press April 23, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department is dropping some newspaper and magazine subscriptions to save money.

The agency has told its employees to cancel subscriptions to general interest newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post and to magazines such as Newsweek and Time by April 27.

Future subscriptions will have to be authorized in advance. The department says employees will still have access to news because most publications can be found online on an in-house Web site.

Limited subscriptions to those that aren't online will be kept in a public area and shared, cutting mail screening and delivery costs.

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[monmouth]

1. Things like that may sound trivial, but when I was working and there

was a financial crisis, you'd be amazed how it added up. The free coffee, sodas, birthday parties (cakes). I'm not sure that happens in the government but cutting back on the little things can really pay off. We didn't have to do it forever but it helped.