by jpitney | Apr 5, 2025 | intelligence
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The biggest surprise about this whole brouhaha is that even experienced Washington hands did not expect the Signalgate scandal to have legs for long. After all, how many Americans know who the Houthis are, where Yemen is, or why the...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2025 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
The High Cost of Producing Multifamily Housing in California Evidence and Policy Recommendations Jason M. Ward, Luke Schlake https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA3743-1.html In this report, the authors present analyses of production cost differences among...
by jpitney | Apr 3, 2025 | Congress, Debate, Debt, Deliberation
Mike Johnson (the former Michel guy, not the current speaker): The framers of the Constitution were in good measure geniuses who had a vision for the future and took lessons from the accomplishments and failures of the budding European democracies. That genius is not...
by jpitney | Apr 2, 2025 | California Politics, Health
Kristen Hwang at CalMatters: California voters told lawmakers last fall that they wanted doctors to get paid more to see low-income patients. But officials for the Newsom administration blew past a federal deadline to make that happen through Medi-Cal Monday,...
by jpitney | Apr 1, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Journalism, Journalists, Voice of America
With the Voice of America falling silent, Rep. Young Kim said she worries the U.S. is ceding the airwaves to foreign dictators. “And we’re not there to counter that disinformation,” she said.https://t.co/FfUHguDH0n — Kris Cheng (@krislc) March 31,...
