Long Island, NY Correspondent — The vehicle was always the wrong shape for the mission, and its absorption this autumn is the proof. An entity created by executive order, staffed with temporary employees, with no statutory authority to compel anything, was going to end when attention moved. It did. If the work is to be … Continue reading With the effort now folded into the personnel office and other agencies rather than operating as a standalone body, how should the work be made permanent rather than becoming another audit that gets filed?
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After a full year, did the administration demonstrate that significant policy change is possible within the existing administrative structure, or that institutional inertia remains dominant?
Dayton, Ohio Correspondent — A year in, the answer has more evidence behind it than it did in March. Direction changed fast where the law already left room — enforcement choices, permitting emphasis, regulatory pauses. That's changing the process sheet and it matters. The machinery is a different story. What the year actually demonstrated is … Continue reading After a full year, did the administration demonstrate that significant policy change is possible within the existing administrative structure, or that institutional inertia remains dominant?
The reconciliation bill signed today adds substantially to the deficit path. Does that undercut the efficiency effort, or are the two separate files?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — They're separate files and they're being scored on the same page, which is the problem. Waste and fraud are real and worth attacking on their own terms. Nothing in that argument depends on the deficit, and the case for going after a hundred-billion-dollar fraud loss stands whether the budget is … Continue reading The reconciliation bill signed today adds substantially to the deficit path. Does that undercut the efficiency effort, or are the two separate files?
Character, temperament, and fitness questions have been raised on both sides, alongside earlier concerns about age and capacity. How much weight should voters give these personal factors relative to policy differences?
Prescott Valley, Arizona Correspondent — Character and temperament matter. Trump's are well known and often undisciplined. The alternative carries her own record on the border, inflation, and institutional trust, which voters are entitled to weigh too. Fitness for the office includes the capacity to drive an agenda and to challenge institutional capture. On decisiveness and … Continue reading Character, temperament, and fitness questions have been raised on both sides, alongside earlier concerns about age and capacity. How much weight should voters give these personal factors relative to policy differences?
Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A pipe owned by an adversary's legal system isn't a magazine with a catchy song. The predicate is what makes it legitimate: an application whose algorithm and data can be directed under a statute we don't control, in a country that already uses platforms as instruments. The precedent risk is … Continue reading Is the enacted TikTok divestiture law a legitimate national-security measure, or a precedent for political control of any disfavored platform?
Should members of Congress who used taxpayer funds to settle sexual misconduct claims be required to repay those funds, resign, or face prosecution?
Wheeling, West Virginia Correspondent — We've watched powerful people protect each other for a long time in this country, and I spent thirty years on the union side of that arrangement, so I'm not new to it. When the settlement money comes out of public funds, it stops being a private personnel matter. Ordinary workers … Continue reading Should members of Congress who used taxpayer funds to settle sexual misconduct claims be required to repay those funds, resign, or face prosecution?
Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Q&A Session from 15th Annual Symposium
Myrtle Beach, SC, Orlando, FL and Washington, D.C. January 2, 2019—Thinking Outside the Boxe has released the transcripts of the question and answer session from its 2018 Annual Symposium. Participants included correspondents from Gastonia, North Carolina; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Owatonna, Minnesota; and Sheffield, Jamaica. Digger Cartwright also participated. This year’s Symposium addressed tariffs and … Continue reading Thinking Outside the Boxe Releases Transcript of Q&A Session from 15th Annual Symposium
