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Dysfunctional Los Angeles City Politics Threatens Housing Progress
Politics tamfitronics Politics / August 2, 2024Mayor Karen Bass’s administration has failed to live up to its own affordable-housing ambitions. A homeless encampment under a bridge in downtown Los Angeles on July 26.(Photo by Apu Gomes / AFP)When Karen Bass was elected mayor of Los Angeles, it seemed that the city’s shameful neglect of its housing crisis would finally end. Bass, after all, is a progressive, and she staked much of her political capital during her mayoral campaign on a pledge to tackle the interconnected crises of homelessness and a dearth of affordable or supportive housing in the sprawling city.Two years on, the promise is unfulfilled, and what progress has been made, through Bass-backed programs such as Inside Safe, which has moved thousands of people from the streets into motels, is now at risk...
Electoral politics become a subtext in dramatic prisoner swap with Russia
Politics tamfitronics WASHINGTON —When the Americans freed from Russia stepped on U.S. soil late Thursday night, the first hugs came from a beaming President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.The scene showed a dramatic, poignant and possibly life-saving rescue of “wrongly detained” U.S. citizens. It was also the kind of image political election campaigns would pay a fortune to get.Politics, perhaps inevitably, became a subtext to the multinational prisoner swap that freed 16 Westerners from Russia and sent eight Russian spies and at least one convicted assassin back to Russia.Biden, in announcing the hard-fought deal, credited the relationships with U.S. allies, especially Germany, that he had worked to repair after the era in which then-President Trump was dismissive of such partnerships. Even now, Republicans are campaigning on a platform that promotes isolationism.“Allies matter,”...
Josh Shapiro Delivers Brutal Dig on J.D. Vance: Trump Has ‘Buyer’s Remorse’
Politics tamfitronics Put on the spot at a press conference, the Pennsylvania governor didn’t mince his words when describing the Republican VP-hopeful. UpdatedAug. 03, 20244:09AM EDT/PublishedAug. 02, 20243:49PM EDTBastiaan Slabbers/ReutersJosh Shapiro gave a scathing review of JD Vance’s standing in Republican politics on Friday, calling the VP-hopeful a “total phony baloney” who “doesn’t know what he believes.” The snarky response came during a press conference after a reporter told Shapiro that Vance had attacked him by claiming his speeches sounded like an “impression of a really bad Barack Obama.”“Barack Obama is probably our most gifted orator of my time, so it’s kind of a weird insult, I guess,” Shapiro began.The Pennsylvania Governor, who’s reportedly on Kamala Harris’ vice president shortlist, got more pointed in his comments from there. “I’ll say this about J.D. Vance,”...
