Showing posts with label local government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local government. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Implementation and Public Groceries

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Many posts have discussed public administration . New York's Mayor Mamdani wants to set up public grocery stores.  As usual, good int...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Trust Over Time

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  Many posts have discussed confidence in institutions . Bruce Mehlman:
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Getting Local News

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  Many posts   have  dealt  with  media problems . From Pew : Americans turn to a range of sources for their local news, and while some tra...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Most Big-City Mayors Are Democrats

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Many posts have discussed local government . Briana Ryan at Ballotpedia : Ahead of this year's mayoral elections, we found that more ...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Threats and Turnover of Election Officials

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Many   post s  have   discussed   political   violence . .   From Issue One: In the five years since the monumental 2020 presidential electi...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

Flat Fees and California Public Defenders

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Many posts have discussed the American legal system . Anat Rubin at CalMatters: Nearly half of California counties pay private lawyers an...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Minoritarianism

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Steven M. Teles, "Minoritarianism Is Everythwere,:  National Affairs , spring 2025 In search of the tyranny of the minority, one would...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Los Angeles on Fire

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States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County ! @GavinNewsom @fema @R5_Fire_News pic.twitter.com/Ebxv6KygpA — Russel L. Honore...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Sprawl

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Harry Stevens at WP: Clarendon, a dense urban neighborhood of about 1,500 people , offered a favorable comparison. Everything we needed was ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

News Deserts and Newspaper Closures

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Many posts   have  dealt  with  media problems . From the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University: The number of local news d...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Public Policy

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  A number of posts have discussed climate change and hurricanes . Florida is suffering the effects of Hurricanes Helene and Milton: Car...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Local News

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Many posts   have  dealt  with  media problems  such as  ghost newspapers  and  news deserts . Some national outlets are doing fine, but  lo...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Local Journalism: Points of Light in Dark Times

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Many posts   have  dealt  with  media problems  such as  ghost newspapers  and  news deserts . Some national outlets are doing fine, but  lo...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Sheriffs and Their Power

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Law enforcement  in the United States is  decentralized  and fragmented.  Sometimes  the system  works well.  Sometimes it does not.  Sherif...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Local News Trends

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Many posts   have  dealt  with  media problems  such as  ghost newspapers  and  news deserts . Some national outlets are doing fine, but  lo...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Older Homeowners Dominate Local Elections

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 The Gray Vote: How Older Home-Owning VotersDominate Local ElectionsKatherine Levine Einstein∗Maxwell Palmer†Ellis Hamilton‡Ethan Singer Abs...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Trust in Institutions 2023

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Jerry M. Jones at Gallup : Gallup’s annual update on trust in government institutions and actors finds Americans have the most faith in lo...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

School Choice Redux

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At Vox, Andrew Prokop explains why the school choice movement is making progress with education savings accounts: Universal voucher bills ha...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Police Unions and Civilian Oversight

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Organized labor in general has fallen on hard times.  But in many places , public-employee unions retain enormous power . Jamiles Lartey at...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Lowest Unionization Rate on Record

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 From BLS: The union membership rate --the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions --was 10.1 percent in 2022, down fr...