This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.
What the left is doodling.
John Deering | Creators Syndicate
What the right is doodling.
Steve Kelley | Creators Syndicate
Reader essay.
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A very common kind of story you might see in the news is “what’s going on at U.S. colleges,” or the common subvariant “what’s going wrong at U.S. colleges.”But what if all those articles don't actually describe what's happening on U.S. campuses? In today’s reader essay, Chato Hazelbacker, the president of Pueblo Community College in Pueblo, CO, makes an incredibly well made argument that the way these discussions about higher education focuses on only a select few colleges has a pernicious effect on higher education. You can read his full piece here.
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Reader review.
In this section, we like to feature two comments from the same edition that critique our coverage in two different ways. In our edition on the recent federal funding freeze, two readers had different impressions to add to our commentary:
Gaye Lynn said she was very supportive of the changes from the Trump White House:
“‘I’m a Trump voter and I’m not the least bit conflicted! As democrats are clutching their pearls and having a meltdown, I am extremely happy with this administration’s vision and course of action! Are there going to be speed bumps along the way? Of course! The American people voted for change and some common sense in government and that’s what we are getting!
We lived through the last four years with all of the extreme nonsense of the liberal left, and the left will live through these next four years and (hopefully) beyond!”
Derrick White had some interesting figures to contextualize the government’s size:
“The most interesting claim that I've seen in all this is that the Federal Workforce has not significantly increased since 1970. That shocked me, and I went and checked, and it was true. Despite the US population going from a little over 200 million to well over 300 million in that time, the number of government employees has fluctuated up and down without meaningful increase (the census worker spikes are fun though).
I don't know where all the money is going, but it’s not going to ever increasing numbers of Federal employees.”
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