Denver This is such a Twilight Zone, unbelievable time that it buggers the imagination, but in reality, there are constant reminders that politics, and especially the lawmaking that politics sometimes produces, is not easily adaptable to remote work, but remains in-person business. A Republican state senator in Alaska is finding this out the hard …
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Modern Bounty Hunters, Posses, and Deputies
Missoula In yet another fragmenting of the power and responsibility of the state, we’re seeing repeated issues where our very modern, post-scarcity, technocratic state is a version of a wilder West, being torn asunder in yet new deputization to unqualified citizen posses and vigilante groups. The front page example is the battle over citizen-enforcement …
Post-Ida, Questions Clear, Answers Awaited
Pearl River Everyone I know has learned how to use our local electric utility Entergy app in order to look at their map to try and figure out whether or not their block in their neighborhood and, just maybe, their house has power now eleven days after Hurricane Ida’s impact hit New Orleans. Red means …