by jpitney | Sep 12, 2022 | Civility
Erica Pandey at Axios: Small and simple, kind gestures have immense, underestimated power. Why it matters: When it comes to doing nice things for others, a little goes a long way. That should encourage all of us to put in that bit of extra effort to make...
by jpitney | Sep 11, 2022 | Civility, Local Government
Craig Wall at WLS-TV in Chicago: Some former Chicago City Council members suggest a lack of civility in the city council is one of the driving reasons for why so many people are leaving. Nearly one-third of the council has left for one reason or another. Former...
by jpitney | Sep 7, 2022 | California Politics, Civility
At the Los Angeles Times, Mark Z. Barabak notes that public meetings have increasingly been subject to disruption: The result is a new California law that will make it easier to conduct the public’s business by spelling out just how and when bullies, bad actors and...
by jpitney | Sep 6, 2022 | Civility, Elections, Public Service, Violence
Neil Vigdor at NYT: In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked doors during an election...
by jpitney | Sep 3, 2022 | Civility, Elections
John F. Harris at Politico: The paradox of modern technology, especially as harnessed by social media, is that it is especially proficient in unleashing primitive dimensions of human character. That suggests a renaissance of insult, indignation and conspiracy theory —...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress
AP congressional correspondent Alan Fram is retiring. From his closing thoughts: Anti-government rhetoric by politicians is not new. But these latest assaults on faith in government and the election system underpinning it — by potent influencers like a former...
