by jpitney | Sep 14, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: What the Rules Committee did on Monday of last week was to put out a special rule for consideration of the four scheduled matters — the energy-water appropriations bill and three disapproval resolutions of executive regulations...
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...
by jpitney | Sep 9, 2025 | Elections, Local Government, Public Service
Merrill “Skipp” Stilwell `09 is running for city council in Littleton, CO: Mailers This is a 90s innovation that keeps on ticking and eats up most of my campaign donations. This is still expensive but effective & reaches the people we need. We can...
by jpitney | Sep 8, 2025 | Taxes
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 21: It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that...
by jpitney | Sep 7, 2025 | Higher Education
Farid Zaid at Inquisitive: The idea that scholarly excellence could be measured with precision is a relatively recent invention. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF), introduced in the mid-twentieth century, marked the beginning of this shift – offering first libraries and...
by jpitney | Sep 6, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Higher Education, History
Jim VandeHei at Axios: America rocks. Yes, there are countless things we could do better. And lots of areas of legit concerns. But I beg young people to understand the enormous, indisputable advantages of this country, especially compared to other nations. We’re...
