by jpitney | Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism
From LAist: Citing plummeting advertising revenue as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the Southern California News Group (SCNG), which operates 11 local newspapers in the region, has furloughed roughly 50 employees across its newsrooms and laid off several others,...
by jpitney | Apr 8, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus
A diverse set of groups across the political spectrum recently sent this letter to the bipartisan leadership of the House: Dear Speaker Pelosi, Republican Leader McCarthy, Majority Leader Hoyer, and Republican Whip Scalise: Thank you for your leadership in...
by jpitney | Apr 7, 2020 | Coronavirus
Matthew Continetti at AEI: Associations are key. Under a regime in which government is limited to secure the unalienable rights men and women possess because they each were created in the image of God, society is as important as the state. “The chief and most potent...
by jpitney | Apr 6, 2020 | Coronavirus
“Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780: Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the Heart, then those qualities which would otherways lay dormant, wake into Life, and form the Character...
by jpitney | Apr 5, 2020 | Coronavirus
From National Public Radio (h/t David Dreier): It’s changing the way we work, we live, we communicate, what we expect from our governments. NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Yuval Noah Harari about what happens once COVID-19 is beaten. : ...
