Public broadcasting under threat echoes Rogers 1969 plea
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes Fred Rogers urged Congress to defend public broadcasting in 1969 and warns today’s Trump order to cut CPB funding endangers PBS NPR and public media nationwide. It argues CPB funds support 99% of Americans and emergency needs, urging bipartisan protest and local philanthropy to sustain public media if federal support dries up.
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Fred Rogers
U.S. Senate
Public Broadcasting
Rogers
U.S
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
America
Donald Trump
CPB
PBS
National Public Radio
NPR
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
WQED
WYEP
Fred Rogers Productions
Congress
United States
Trump
Corporation
Newark political theater echoes ancient and modern politics
The piece critiques a Newark incident where Democrats including Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez clashed at an ICE detention site. DHS officials say the group violated security warnings, leading to Baraka’s trespassing arrest and media controversy amid broader claims of partisan theatrics and critiques of Democratic governance.
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William Shakespeare
Fiorello
New York City
Fiorello LaGuardia
Newark
New Jersey
Bonnie Watson Coleman
Rob Menendez
Robert Menendez
la Monica McIver
Ras Baraka
ICE
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives
Baraka
Congress
U.S
District of New Jersey
Alina Habba
Homeland Security
Tricia McLaughlin
DHS
Robert Menendez Jr
Chalkbeat Newark
New York
Souter's Unwavering Precedent Guided a Principled Court
Noah Feldman recalls former Justice David Souter as a model of judicial restraint and loyalty to precedent. He highlights Souter's living-constitutional approach, influence on Casey, and belief that legitimacy comes from reasoned, evolving law rather than certainty.
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Avid Souter
U.S. Supreme Court
George H.W. Bush
Souter
Supreme Court
Republic
John Marshall Harlan II
Sandra Day O’connor
Anthony Kennedy
Planned Parenthood
Casey
Roe
Harvard University
Antonin Scalia
Weare
New Hampshire
Chambers
Episcopal Church
Washington
Harry Blackmun
America
Henry James
Henry Adams
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Oxford
James
Adams
Holmes
New England Reserve
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