News Haul MLK Weekend 1.16.22
The Week's Headlines, Links & Advance Readings
Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC
The (Too-) Long Arc — and Joe Biden’s Very, Very Bad Week
Biden overshoots on what’s possible in divided DC. (From the Associated Press in The Charlotte Observer.)
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=0107d591-fc67-478b-83b8-1999b3460f8e
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Supreme Court blocks Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies: From NPR’s Nina Totenberg.
(And yet, meanwhile…)
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COVID cases soar, overwhelming entire hospital systems in multiple states with the unvaccinated seriously ill, again this week requiring deployment of military medical personnel to assist.
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Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/politics/democratic-frustration-midterms.html
Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/politics/democratic-frustration-midterms.html
Voting rights and lack of progress in racial equity
Biden says he doesn't know if voting rights legislation can pass : NPR
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NC can go ahead with political maps, court rules in win for GOP ahead of 2022 midterms
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257130202.html
The Charlotte Observer - Senate plows ahead on voting rights
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=152bb84a-6754-4416-82fc-3119aabc5e58
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NPR hosts' departures fuel questions over race. The full story is complex. (Story from NPR… about NPR.)
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NPR story: Soul of a Nation… “Christian Nationalism?”
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COVID 19, Omicron Surge and Policy Politics
Open mic and Dr. Fauci’s last remaining nerve
The Charlotte Observer - Inane squabble with Dr. Fauci shows the problem with oversight
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=c79045a4-d991-4415-acfa-2acdc730fcba
Some Stones of Hope
(On the news and policy front…)
Accountability for January 6 Insurrection
11 Oath Keepers face rare charge of seditious conspiracy. (From the Associated Press in The Charlotte Observer.)
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=9225c4d3-be8b-4c34-90fd-f79781121185
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Voting rights
Ohio Supreme Court Strikes Down Republican Gerrymander of Map - The New York Times. (However, this is in disturbing contrast to the N.C. 3-judge panel this week’s issuing the exact opposite ruling that downright endorses partisan gerrymandering. See above under "Too-Long Arc”.) How can a crippled U.S. Congress and fragmented partisan state-by-state voting processes possibly add up to anything resembling fair, equitable and constitutional federal — as in national, nationwide — elections?)
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The Charlotte Observer - Biden nominates Davidson professor to Fed board
https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=384e6fa5-0ebb-43bd-be60-a0ca9fe258b7
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David Brooks’ thought-provoking, soul-feeding annual Sidney Awards for …
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/brooks-sidney-awards-2021.amp.html
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Everything is broken? Despite its title, an inspiring piece from xxxx in Tablet, one of David Brooks’ Sidney Award winners.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
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The Soul’s Code/Hillman on biological parents and those whose calling is development of our original “acorn theory” gifts.
Former child prodigy gets to ‘stretch his boundaries’ with the Charlotte Symphony
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article257185862.html
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Advance reading for future editions.
I’m no fan of helicopter-parenting, but I don’t yet know what I think about this, either. From The New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/17/janet-lansburys-gospel-of-less-anxious-parenting