by jpitney | Feb 17, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Congress, Declaration of Independence, Disabilities, Dreier, Emergency, Environment, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Transparency, Vaccine
Jenny Jarvie and Grace Toohey at LAT: What went wrong with L.A. county’s warnings and evacuations is now the subject of two different investigations after Times reporting found that emergency wireless alerts went out to west Altadena almost five hours after fire began...
by jpitney | Jan 30, 2025 | Congress, Dreier, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
At Roll Call, Jackie Wang interviews Rep.Vince Fong: Q: How has Congress changed since you were first a staffer? A: The people make this place go, and if you look at who was there at the time, it was members like Jim McCrery, Wally Herger, David Dreier, Dan...
by jpitney | Dec 23, 2024 | Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
April Quevedo and Shaun Chornobroff at Capital News Service: At least 3,100 journalists have been killed around the world since 1837 according to a Capital News Service analysis of databases of fallen journalists maintained by the Committee to Protect Journalists...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2024 | Dreier, Journalism
DREIER ROUNDTABLE OP-ED CONTEST DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY. CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2024 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article of the kinds that appear in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern...
by jpitney | Nov 30, 2024 | Civility, Dreier
Democratic strategist Michael Ceraso at The Hill: I continue to reject politics that reject people. You have to understand, my mother suffered from bipolar disorder and struggled with drug addiction to self-medicate. I was removed from my home multiple times to...
by jpitney | Nov 28, 2024 | Civility, Dreier
CMC Trustee David Dreier ’75 honored Utah Gov. Spencer Cox with the Dreier Roundtable Civility Award during a special Athenaeum luncheon on Monday. The honor “recognizes public servants who engage in a vigorous clash of ideas” while understanding that...
