by jpitney | May 26, 2025 | California Politics, Immigration, Population, Technology
Jim Carlton and Paul Overberg at WSJ: The state’s population rose 0.6% in 2024, reaching 39.43 million by adding almost a quarter-million people, according to Census Bureau estimates…Yet California’s growth is tenuous. Without immigration, it would have shrunk...
by jpitney | Apr 20, 2025 | China, Technology, Trade
Nathan Gardels at Noema writes of the unanticipated consequences of the trade war: … Keyu Jin, author of “The New China Playbook: Between Socialism and Capitalism,” points out that the tariff war will also result in reshaping China’s industrial structure, likely...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Technology, Transparency, Volunteering
Lorelei Kelly at The Conversation: Congressional staff serve in thousands of district offices across the nation, and their communications technology doesn’t match that of most businesses and even many homes. Members’ district offices only got connected...
by jpitney | Jun 3, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Local Government, Technology
Dreier Roundtable Fellow Nathaniel Worley won the Government Department award for best thesis: Police Flight Oversight: LAPD Drone as First Responder Implementation Abstract This thesis explores the feasibility of implementing a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program...
by jpitney | Mar 31, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Social Media, Technology
Claremont McKenna College alum Helena Bottemiller Evich has an important article at her Food Fix newsletter: here are many factors at play here. One biggie is that the business model for a large-scale national digital publication has essentially crumbled. There was a...
