by jpitney | Sep 13, 2025 | Civility, Dreier
At KGET in Bakersfield, Eytan Wallace interviews David Dreier about the Dreier Roundtable and the urgent need for civility. Full segment here Excerpt below at 2:25:
by jpitney | Sep 13, 2025 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Utah
Last year, Governor Spencer Cox received the Dreier Roundtable Civility Award. Natasha Korecki, Matt Dixon, Allan Smith and Jonathan Allen at NBC: At a news conference in the days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox took to the podium to...
by jpitney | Sep 12, 2025 | Crime, Public Service, Violence
Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Kyle Stewart at NBC: The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is sending shock waves through Capitol Hill, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing fears for their own safety and taking greater security...
by jpitney | Sep 11, 2025 | Civility, Violence
Statement yesterday by President George W. Bush: “Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views. It happened on a college campus, where the open exchange of opposing ideas should be sacrosanct. Violence and vitriol must be...
by jpitney | Sep 10, 2025 | California Politics, Poverty
The US Census Bureau explains the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a more accurate metric than the old measure: The SPM, first released in 2011 and produced in collaboration with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), extends the official poverty measure by...