by jpitney | Mar 31, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The House Rules Committee is to be commended on holding a day-long hearing March 17 on proxy floor voting and remote committee proceedings — two emergency pandemic procedures initiated in the last Congress. All told, 16 House members...
by jpitney | Mar 30, 2022 | Civility, Nevada
Jessica Hill at The Las Vegas Sun: Pahrump resident Bill Hockstedler, a veteran who works as the vice president of strategic development for Mayo Clinic, refers to himself as a “straight shooter” and a moderate Republican who wants to see a level of civility and...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
George Miller and John A. Lawrence at The Hill: The House Don Young leaves behind is one where knowing how to cut a bipartisan deal is a much more difficult challenge than in his glory days, wielding the gavel at the Resources and Transportation committees. His...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2022 | Civility, Deliberation, Education, Local Government
Jonathan E. Collins and Julian Bessinger have a Brookings article titled ” The case for participatory democracy during educational crisis.” In 2010, an organization called Everyday Democracy (ED) organized the Strong Start for Children (SSFC)...
by jpitney | Mar 27, 2022 | Deliberation, Polarization, Social Media
Nathan Gardels at Noema: The splinternet has predictably evolved into wars among platforms armed with predisposed views of reality that resist external checks on perceptions. As Claire Webb writes in Noema, epistemes or paradigms determine how information is...
