by jpitney | Sep 27, 2025 | Free Speech
Don Wolfenberger at The Hill: One Florida member called on his followers on X to provide the names of those government workers who celebrated Kirk’s death. Compiling such lists is reminiscent of the McCarthy era in the 1950s when people were encouraged to report...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government
Terry Castleman, Rebecca Ellis and Grace Toohey at LAT: Poor communication, understaffing, a lack of adequate planning and chaotic conditions contributed to a failure to issue timely evacuation orders to parts of Altadena as the deadly Eaton fire raced through the...
by jpitney | Sep 25, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Suhauna Hussain at LAT: A local television station based in Salinas abruptly shut down its news operations on Tuesday after 56 years on the air. KION-TV, which serves Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz regions on California’s Central Coast, announced on its website that...
by jpitney | Sep 24, 2025 | Civility, Federalism, Presidency
Gov. Cox recently spoke with Ezra Klein: And this is the problem. We believe in just short term: If I could just this once win this election, then all of my wildest dreams will come true, and my enemies will go away forever. Or: If we win this presidential election,...
by jpitney | Sep 24, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
At Politico, Ben Jacobs explains how censure has evolved from a mark of shame to a fundraising opportunity: Since 2021, there has been an average of more than one official censure a year — a far leap from the past, when censures used to be a once-in-a-decade kind of...
