POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following is an excerpt from CNN’s Politics Nightcap daily newsletter: “RNC kick-off: Police union asks for ‘open carry’ suspension “The head of Cleveland’s largest police union is calling on Ohio Gov. John Kasich to temporarily restrict the state’s open carry gun laws during this week’s Republican National Convention after Sunday’s shooting in Louisiana that killed three officers…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The editors at the Detroit Free Press have published an editorial titled “Like a Sick Joke.” Here are the opening paragraphs: “In the wake of the Flint water crisis, amid profound concerns over an aging oil pipeline under the Great Lakes, with an ongoing, urgent need to decrease pollution and improve air quality and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH We are inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, researchers, and business leaders working in the technology sector. We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. We believe in an inclusive country that fosters opportunity, creativity and a…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH It is very easy to exaggerate the importance of small things. No matter how obsessive one is about details, something can always slip through the proverbial cracks. That said, the following oversight does seem indicative to me of a broader issue. Writing for Esquire, Matt Miller has reported: “Former reality TV…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Here is a background note written by Michael Barbaro and published on the progressive blog Crooks and Liars: “All the way back in June of 2015, this news was reported, although at the time many of us dismissed it because clearly we had no idea how insane this election would be,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Department of Education Policy and Program Studies Division has released a report on State and Local Expenditures on Corrections and Education. Here are the highlights of the report: –From 1979–80 to 2012–13, public PK–12 expenditures increased by 107 percent (from $258 to $534 billion),4 while total state and local corrections expenditures increased…
The following was posted on the site medium.com by a student at East Carolina University. I am a student at East Carolina University. ECU is an amazing school, and one of 16 in the University of North Carolina (UNC) System. This public higher education system is one that has been a model for many other…
Donald Trump gave his most recent economic speech with this backdrop. I briefly thought that he might somehow be striking the same theme as my recent post “Waste, Job Creation, and Higher Ed,” but the choice of backdrop appears to have been just another example of a campaign that has not given much thought to…
BY MARTIN KICH This rumination is the latest from Louis Gohmert, widely known by the epithet “The Dumbest Man in Congress”: “I really wonder how many people in this body who had the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not, whether there was an asteroid coming or something that would end…
