Author / Sean Janda
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Public Transit as Access to Employment
BY SEAN JANDA In any contemporary American debate about how government can work to improve the prospects of the impoverished or the state of the urban environment, it is virtually certain that at least one participant—and, in many cases, both participants—will repeatedly circle back to the necessity of job creation. Unfortunately, creating more jobs is…
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Sean Janda: Live Blogging the VP Debate
9:30: Just to wrap-up, I’ll be interested to see where the reaction polls on this debate are. In my personal (and fully biased) opinion, the Vice President definitely managed to call out Representative Ryan every time he tried to go with misinformation or distortions of truth. He also (at least to me) seemed to be…
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Sean Janda: Live-blogging Denver
9:30: So now that we’re just wrapping up with the closing statements, I wanted to give my perspective on the debate as a whole. For whatever reason, the President seemed a little bit disengaged tonight–I got the feeling that he was reverting to his “lecturing professor” mode. On the other hand, Governor Romney has seemed…
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SCOTUS: The Road Ahead
While the last Supreme Court term had its fair share of important and memorable cases, with rulings on Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law and President Obama’s signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act healthcare legislation coming in the same week, the upcoming 2012-2013 term promises to have its own cases with far-reaching implications. Although a…
