Delay openings, including for distance learning, until after Labor Day. Don’t assume students will socially distance. Add rigor to distance learning. And, while at it, re-engineer the school day and year.
Category Archives: State and local
Moving Forward Act is a step backward
Greg Stanton claims authorship pride in the self-proclaimed infrastructure funding plan of House Democrats, which is actually about much more than just that. But in terms of fiscal responsibility, federalism and the allocation of capital, it’s a step backward.
Ducey is treating gyms and fitness centers unfairly
Whether sweeping them up in an executive order to close the bar loophole is illegal is a more difficult question.
Sinema’s lame excuse on police reform
Police reform in Congress is at a dead stop, and Sinema’s support of a virtual filibuster is part of the reason. This wasn’t good-faith bipartisanship.
Is McSally an economic conservative?
Her vacation tax credit may be pro-business, but it violates fundamental economic conservative principles.
More productive police and criminal justice reforms
Reforms shouldn’t jeopardize gains in lower crime rates and livability of urban areas from pro-active policing.
Ducey’s coronavirus mistake
Ducey had done a good job balancing Covid-19 considerations. But he didn’t managed expectations regarding what to expect when he lifted the stay-at-home order.
How McSally can get back into the game
If McSally wants a different outcome from 2018, when she lost a U.S. Senate race, she needs to run a different campaign.
Moving beyond China as a political weapon
Republicans plan on using China as a wedge issue in the election. What the country really needs is a new bipartisan consensus regarding a post-engagement approach to China.
Ducey should have stuck with his first statement about protests and rioting
You don’t have to agree with the premise of the protesters to condemn, and take action against, rioting and looting.