by jpitney | Oct 24, 2022 | Elections, Nevada, Public Service
At WP, Dana Milbank reports on the impending election fiasco in Nevada: The election supervisors in 10 of the state’s 17 counties have already quit, been forced out or announced their departures. Lower-level election workers have quit in the face of consistent abuse....
by jpitney | Oct 23, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation
Yuval Levin at CNN: There is no silver bullet for the problems confronting our democracy, but it is crucial to begin by recognizing that the political arena is intended to be a venue for disagreement and contention. Our political system now feels dysfunctional – not...
by jpitney | Oct 21, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists
Penelope Muse Abernathy and Tim Franklin, “The State of Local News 2022” (Northwestern Univerity, Medill School, October 4, 2022). More than a fifth of the nation’s citizens live in news deserts—with very limited access to local news—or in communities at...
by jpitney | Oct 20, 2022 | Elections, Nevada, Public Service
Linda So, Joseph Tanfani and Jason Szep at Reuters: Businessman Robert Beadles claimed he had found evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Then he went on the attack, targeting a 48-year-old woman who runs elections in Nevada’s Washoe County. “Now,...
