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How The 35-Day Shutdown Created Turbulence for National Air Safety
How The 35-Day Shutdown Created Turbulence for National Air Safety
On Friday morning, January 25, the FAA stopped all incoming flights into LaGuardia airport for an hour because of staffing issues with air traffic controllers. Departing flights were seeing delays of ...
29 Jan, 2019
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America is Ready and Waiting for a Credible Independent to Challenge Both Parties
America is Ready and Waiting for a Credible Independent to Challenge Both Parties
The data is undeniable. You can see it in polls, voter registration statistics, and in most coffee shops. A substantial majority of voters, especially younger ones, want the option of choosing a candi ...
28 Jan, 2019
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4 min read
Organizations, Lawmakers Push for Open Primaries as Crowded 2020 Field Emerges
Organizations, Lawmakers Push for Open Primaries as Crowded 2020 Field Emerges
The 2020 presidential field is already taking shape. Nine Democrats have announced their campaigns since December, many of whose announcements went under the radar because the lack of media coverage:P ...
25 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Class Warfare: Mayoral Candidate Cory Briggs Talks Donor Class vs. Voter Class
Class Warfare: Mayoral Candidate Cory Briggs Talks Donor Class vs. Voter Class
San Diego, Calif.- If the media wanted a dash of spice for the 2020 San Diego Mayoral race, enter Cory Briggs. A consistent critic of City Hall who has had success suing the city, Briggs has anno ...
24 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Women’s March: What’s That Word? Intersectionalism?
Women’s March: What’s That Word? Intersectionalism?
You may have heard the story. In late December, it came out that leaders of the Women’s March made anti-Jewish remarks and had ties Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. You can see the ...
23 Jan, 2019
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5 min read
Frayed Wires: As California enters a brave new energy world, can it keep the lights on?
Frayed Wires: As California enters a brave new energy world, can it keep the lights on?
Gretchen Bakke thinks a lot about power—the kind that sizzles through a complex grid of electrical stations, poles, lines and transformers, keeping the lights on for tens of millions of Californians w ...
17 Jan, 2019
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9 min read
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
Baby, It’s Cold Inside
I watched the TV coverage of the opening session of the 116th Congress and was happy to see all the inspired women in jewel-toned dresses, many young, some of color, taking their places...
09 Jan, 2019
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7 min read
OPINION: To Clean Up The Environment, We Must First Clean Up Our Politics
OPINION: To Clean Up The Environment, We Must First Clean Up Our Politics
In these times of mounting national and international crisis --  from poverty to climate change -- a lesson that emerges from studying how liberal democracies fail is condensed in a few words not ...
03 Jan, 2019
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3 min read
#MakeAmericaDebateAgain: A Stronger, Healthier Republic Requires Open Debates
#MakeAmericaDebateAgain: A Stronger, Healthier Republic Requires Open Debates
It’s 2019 and the United States of America still has a democracy problem.A few powerful studies have summed it up differently, but the heart of the problem is that despite Lincoln’s claim that we ever ...
02 Jan, 2019
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7 min read
Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists
Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists
In December, I wrote an article on a particularly egregious case of the famous legislative "revolving door." After sixteen years in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Deb Peters announced her resig ...
02 Jan, 2019
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5 min read