by jpitney | Aug 31, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Ryan Fonesca at LAT: A state bill with bipartisan support that aimed to throw a lifeline to California’s struggling news industry is no more. In place of the proposed “journalism usage fee” levied on Google and Meta annually to help fund local newsrooms, state...
by jpitney | Aug 30, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
April Rubin and Sara Fischer at Axios: Former Las Vegas county politician Robert Telles was found guilty Wednesday of murdering a local journalist who had written critically about him. The big picture: The 2022 murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2024 | Presidency, Separation of Powers
Gary J. Schmitt, “What the White House Says About the American Constitutional Order,” American Enterprise Institute, August 21, 2024. Key Points: The founders’ views about executive power and its place in a system of separated powers changed over...
by jpitney | Aug 28, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel
Antisemitism on Campus: Understanding Hostility to Jews and Israel Graham Wright, Shahar Hecht, Sasha Volodarsky, and Leonard Saxe August 2024 We know that Jewish students have experienced a heightened hostile environment on many college campuses since October 7. But...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel, Middle East
Jay P. Greene and Frederick M. Hess at the American Enterprise Institute: Academic associations have a long history of connecting scholars and promoting scholarship, but too many today have traded their scholarly mission for a political one. Of the 99 academic...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2024 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Constitution, Separation of Powers
Frederick M. Hess at AEI: Self-government depends on our accepting electoral outcomes or court decisions even when we disagree vehemently with the result. It depends on presidents and voters understanding that the executive branch isn’t empowered to spend billions of...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Drugs
Steve Lopez at LAT: When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. It was, at the time, an elegant urban oasis, with lollipop palms standing over a lake fed by...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Regulation
From the Council of Economic Advisers [emphasis added]: While some permitting requirements serve an important purpose, such as ensuring structural, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical safety and environmental protection, the rise of unnecessary and onerous permitting...
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2024 | Civic Education, Congress, Deliberation
Jordan T. Cash and Kevin J. Burns at Law & Liberty: Civic education has recently taken a remarkable turn for the better, with the flowering of civics institutes in universities across the country which stress the importance of both informed and deliberative...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2024 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
Sophia Heartney at the International Journalists’ Network: In June 2018, a gunman shot and killed five employees of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis, Maryland. It was the deadliest attack on journalists in the U.S. in history. To...
