by Rick Krajewski, Nikil Saval | Jun 2, 2020 | Breakfast, Democracy, Election, Featured
Philadelphia politics are being transformed: block by block, and door by door, upstart candidates for the multiracial working class are stepping up. The same grassroots organizers who helped elect a progressive champion as the city’s District Attorney in 2017 – Larry...
by Sarah Lahm | May 4, 2020 | Breakfast, Education, Featured
Since mid-March, public school students in Minnesota have had to stay home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, according to the state’s governor, Tim Walz, schools will remain closed until the end of this school year, with no guarantee that they will reopen in the...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog, Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Joy Blackwood Let The Cherry Blossoms Bloom It’s March in Washington, D.C., which means the cherry blossoms will bloom any day now. Our nation’s capital would be teeming with visitors and excitement under normal circumstances. The mood here, however,...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 5, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Does New Voting Tech Help Or Hurt Turnout? On the biggest day of the 2020 presidential season so far, Super Tuesday, America’s biggest new voting system—in Los Angeles County—widely frustrated voters and poll workers in its debut in a...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 4, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Making The Most Of Every Vote Right across the bay from my home in Oakland, California is San Francisco. Together, these two congressional districts will send fourteen pledged delegates in July to the Democratic National Convention in...
by Tim Wilkins | Mar 3, 2020 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Andrew Tripp I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what...
