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Category: Government

Possible Bden Cabinet

Biden Can Gain Trust from Trump Voters with Clever Cabinet Nominees

November 22, 2020 Arthur Lieber 2020 Election, Good government, Joe Biden, Trump voters Leave a comment

Joe Biden can help himself, the party, and the American people by taking a radical approach to filling certain cabinet positions. Key to this will be filling certain positions with “real people;” the kind of individuals with whom alienated poor white voters, and many others, can easily relate.

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Adventures on the Titanic

July 12, 2020 Bill Kesler Coronavirus, Government, Health care, Trump Leave a comment

Paul Krugman recently posted a piece in the New York Times, The Deadly Delusions of Mad king Donald. It likened our current state of

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Life after the Voting Rights Act

May 4, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Government, States, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder—to overturn the “pre-clearance” requirement in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—continues to have major

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Are we witnessing the end of representative government?

April 9, 2020 Glenn Koenen 2020 Election, Constitution, Government, Missouri region, States Leave a comment

Back at the turn of the century, as Chair of the Missouri Advisory Council On Alcohol and Drug Abuse, I appeared before committees working-up

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realID

I got my Real ID last week in Missouri. Here’s what you can learn from my experience.

January 17, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Missouri region Leave a comment

By October 1, 2020, anyone wanting to fly domestically, or gain legal admittance to a government facility or a nuclear power plant needs to

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whistleblower

90 top US national security pros say whistle-blower did the right thing

October 7, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Ethics, Good government, Protest/Resistamce, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

While the Trump administration blusters and tries to discredit the brave staffer who blew the whistle on Trump’s politically motivated extortion of the president

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Customs and Border Protection thanks you for your patience

August 23, 2019 Bill Kesler Government Leave a comment

Wow, this is going to be easy! That’s what I thought when I looked at the Trusted Traveler website. My wife and I were

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Virginia Three

Do you remember Virginia Governor Ralph Northam?

March 5, 2019 Arthur Lieber Democracy, Good government, Politics Leave a comment

Ralph Northam is still governor of Virginia, though it seemed that he would be run out on a rail when the story or stories of him being blackface surfaced on Friday, Feb. 1. Just about every progressive with a PC bone in his or her body called for him to immediately resign.

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anti-gerrymandering

MO GOP’s overt / covert plots to undermine new anti-gerrymandering law

December 8, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Good government, Missouri region, Republicans Leave a comment

After the November 2018 midterm election, Missouri voters could congratulate themselves on being ahead of the curve in the nationwide drive for anti-gerrymandering laws.

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E. Coli

Trump delays farm-water testing. Americans get E. Coli

November 27, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Food, Good government, Health, Science, Trump, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

Donald Trump is making us sick—and I mean that literally. Some food experts are claiming that the recent outbreak of E.Coli contamination in Romaine

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