by jpitney | Apr 19, 2025 | Public Policy, Public Service
Last year, David Dreier and David Price urged Congress not to gut AmeriCorps. We got a reminder of its importance when its volunteers took part in the recovery from the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. Now, as AP reports, DOGE is gutting it outside the law....
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2025 | Public Service, Violence
Lex Harvey, Zoe Sottile and Ali Main, CNN: Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Harrisburg man they say broke into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence early Sunday and started a fire while Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Shapiro, his wife Lori, their four...
by jpitney | Mar 18, 2025 | Judiciary, Public Service
Carrie Johnson at NPR: Judge Richard Sullivan, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, said in his lifetime four federal judges have been killed in retaliation for their work on the bench. “This is not hypothetical,” Sullivan, who leads...
by jpitney | Mar 7, 2025 | Judiciary, Public Service, Violence
Reuters: Reuters interviews with 11 federal judges in multiple districts revealed mounting alarm over their physical security and, in some cases, a rise in violent threats in recent weeks. Most spoke on condition of anonymity and said they did not want to...
by jpitney | Mar 6, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Public Service
Robert D. Kaplan at Politico: America’s 41st president, George H. W. Bush, hated the word empire, but he knew how to run one. He was president at the moment the Berlin Wall fell: when the United States instantly became a unipolar power. His deft foreign policy made...
by jpitney | Jan 22, 2025 | Crime, Police, Public Service
David GIlmour at Mediaite: Former police officer Michael Fanone, who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots in 2021, said he “fully expects” to “experience violence” at the hands of some of the offenders released by President Donald Trump’s pardons. In...
