by Rick Closson | Dec 1, 2021 | The Mesa Paper, Uncategorized
There are serious questions being raised recently by the anti-abortion law in Texas, about which the US Supreme Court heard arguments on a technicality last month. Specifically, whether the federal government may contest a state law that infringes on Constitutional...
by Rick Closson | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
By now you should have received your ballot for the September 14 special election deciding whether to remove or keep the current Governor, Gavin Newsom. This is a Vote-by-Mail election. All registered voters receive ballots in the mail and vote by returning them,...
by Keith Carlson | Sep 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Background: Citizen access to the ballot box is increasingly under attack nationwide. Voter roll purges, restrictive voter ID laws, cutbacks on early voting, and elimination of polling locations, have been implemented in various states to successfully reduce voter...
by Keith Carlson | Jul 26, 2018 | Explainers, Uncategorized
Who knew a dry subject like “Emoluments” (according to Webster: the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites) could be interesting? The history involves live lions, a gold box with 408 diamonds, elephant...
by Keith Carlson | Jul 22, 2018 | Fact Checks, Uncategorized
Mr. “I alone can fix it” continues to lie for the sake of justifying the unsupportable. Recently he got it wrong about farmers and soybeans, claiming the fall in prices resulted from “bad (terrible) Trade Deals” (it didn’t). Since much of...
