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Month: May 2017

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Breaking: OSG approved for sea year (and data from MARAD on how it calculates sea year restoration is coming)

May 31, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 2

Owen Doherty, ’81, an Associate Administrator at MARAD, reached out to me today to provide data on how MARAD calculates the percentage of restoration of […]

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Why has MARAD not disputed my data on sea year?

May 25, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 3

Spoiler alert:  Because my source’s data was accurate. Two weeks ago, in a deliberately provocative post entitled  “84% of all MARAD employees who testify before […]

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Breaking: Liberty Maritime has reportedly suspended participation in sea year

May 12, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 21

Two days ago, we revealed the true statistics about the restoration of sea year. They were bleak — and not nearly as rosy as the […]

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84% of all MARAD employees who testify before Congress commit perjury***

May 10, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 12

There’s an old saying that figures don’t lie but liars can figure. MARAD is doing a lot of figuring when it comes to calculating the […]

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Yesterday’s hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security

May 10, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 11

[Updated with a direct link to the video of the testimony instead of taking you to the web page where the video could be found.] […]

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What are they hiding?

May 2, 2017 Andy Simpson, KP '82 23

As reported here, the permanent, entrenched, bureaucracy in MARAD has refused to make public any of the actions that the Academy has taken to address […]

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