by jpitney | Apr 15, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Transportation
Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2025 | Public Service, Violence
Lex Harvey, Zoe Sottile and Ali Main, CNN: Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Harrisburg man they say broke into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence early Sunday and started a fire while Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Shapiro, his wife Lori, their four...
by jpitney | Apr 13, 2025 | Free Speech, Higher Education
At AEI, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey discuss ways of improving viewpoint diversity on college campuses: Short-term: Involve PhDs and other professionals currently working outside academia in research and teaching. Many right-of-center PhDs find more...
by jpitney | Apr 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists
Carol Admire at Florida Weekly: Don’t shoot the messenger. For 32 minutes, Tom Marquardt’s colleagues at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, experienced that grim reality in its most harrowing form. Newspapers are accustomed to facing shots of criticism...
by jpitney | Apr 11, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Back in the old days, if the House Rules Committee had four bills before it seeking a special rule for floor consideration, the committee would grant one special rule for each. In modern times, the committee, in order to save on time...
