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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
Most Americans taking to the roads this Memorial Day weekend will be paying around $3 per gallon of gasoline, but in California the number is well over $4 per gallon. The difference is due in significant part to costly state environmental measures, including ones imposed in the name of fighting climate change. The bad news for non-Californians is that President Biden wants to impose the same agenda nationally. The only difference is that Sacramento has targeted gasoline for price hikes while Washington is focused more on the vehicles using it.
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from Crosscut
News & Media Website in Seattle, WA.
When the maps are redrawn, both parties will need to make choices about who their voters are.
Across the United States, a once-in-a-decade power play is underway. Its outcome could determine which party has an electoral advantage for the next 10 years on both the national and the state level. In states like Washington, the shifting of a few districts could earn or cost a party the legislative majority. After every census, legislative and congressional districts are redrawn to ensure each has about the same number of people. In some states this is a partisan, gerrymandered, undemocratic mess. But in Washington state, lines are drawn by a bipartisan commission with citizen input, which means that both parties always have a say. Going into this process, both parties identify where their voters live based on past elections, then propose new districts that encompass their voters, creating safe, partisan districts. The party that gets the majority of safe districts can enjoy an electoral advantage. But this year, to get that advantage, a different approach might be necessary.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Why homeschoolers often stand out on the job market.
With more parents than ever before choosing or considering the homeschooling option, it can be helpful to hear how homeschoolers turn out. According to the US Census Bureau, homeschooling has tripled this academic year from its pre-pandemic levels, with more than 11 percent of current K-12 students currently learning this way. Research reveals generally positive outcomes for homeschooled students. Harvard, despite some professors' attacks on the practice, periodically spotlights the success of its homeschooled students. And Business Insider proclaimed that “homeschooling could be the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century.”
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from Foreign Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations
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Council on Foreign Relations
Belarus’s Skyjacking Reflects a Global Threat That Democracies Must Confront
On Sunday, May 23, Belarus shocked the world by dispatching a fighter jet to force a Ryanair flight en route from Greece to Lithuania to change course and land instead in Minsk, where authorities then arrested two passengers: Raman Pratasevich, a 26-year-old exiled Belarusian journalist, and his girlfriend, Sofya Sapega. Pratasevich faces criminal charges for allegedly organizing “mass disturbances” via Telegram, an instant-messaging platform; Sapega has been charged with unspecified offenses. The European Union has called for an investigation and for adding to the EU sanctions that the government of Belarus’s authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, already faces. The United States seems likely to follow suit.________
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Washington’s 4th and 5th congressional districts currently stretch vertically from Oregon to the Canadian border. But what if the 4th and 5th were flipped 90° to run east-west instead of north-south? That was the proposal made to the Washington State Redistricting Commission during testimony on May 22, 2021, in its District 5 virtual public outreach meeting. .The state of Washington has used a bipartisan redistricting commission since 1991, a process developed after decades of legislative and judicial wrangling. Consequently, Washington’s electoral map reflects little of the gerrymandering that results in weirdly shaped boundaries in other states, connecting isolated precincts for partisan purposes.
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