Sen. Becky Duncan Massey was in Washington, D.C., for the first meeting of the State Exchange on Employment & Disability (SEED) Mental Health Matters: National Task Force on Workforce Mental …
First they came for the journalists …
Do we really want to take advice about standing up to dictators from someone who is likely to be jailed in the Philippines for just that?
In the case of Maria …
Donald and Ron: Trying to milk the same cow
Before the midterm votes were counted, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were jostling to be king of the GOP. Trump signaled his concern by nicknaming the Florida governor “DeSanctimonious.”
Not bad. …
Somebody spent $9 billion for this?
Candidates, political parties and special interests just spent billions to achieve a 2023 result that’s surprisingly similar to 2022. As the counting continued on Nov. 8-9, Republicans had 48 Senate …
Propaganda: Not taking the hard (or any) questions
Last week’s column by Betty Bean drew comments including one that called Bean a propagandist. Maybe that’s fair. Propaganda is defined as information used to promote or publicize a particular …
Media flaw: Politics over everything else
Never, never have I wanted an election to be over and done with as much as now. It is hard to like most of these candidates.
So, I caught up with …
Reviving local news: The worst idea
America should spend billions to revive local news, writes columnist Perry Bacon Jr. in the Oct. 17 Washington Post:
My vision for addressing the huge decline in local journalism involves hiring …
It’s only words: Free speech or defamation?
A Friday wrap of what I’ve read and pondered this week.
A Connecticut jury has awarded almost $1 billion in damages to victims’ families and an FBI agent from Infowars owner/host …