Assessments and concerns regarding Biden Administration s early criminal justice efforts
This past week brought the end of the first 100 days of Joe Biden s presidency along with a big speech from Prez Biden to Congress. In this prior post, I lamented a bit that the big speech did not devote much attention to criminal justice reform issues. And here is a round-up of some recent articles and commentary reviewing the work of the first 100 days and urging the Biden team to lean into criminal justice issues more:
Tony s Kansas City
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Two things we learned today . . .
The jalapeno popper salad at Wendy s is not to be trifled with
AND . . .
CURSED MISSION GATEWAY ABANDONED AT START OF CONSTRUCTION SEASON!!!
Whilst Prez Biden free money seems to be restarting a great deal of road improvement across the metro, we didn t notice ANY activity at the height of the work day.
Letter news outlets have reported . . . Several key Mission Gateway
entities remain onboard with the $225 million mixed-use project, even as it appears poised to remain in a rut at the former Mission Center Mall
site for the time being.
Tony s Kansas City
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Kansas City News Overnight
Don t worry, we re not gonna let this post linger on top of the blog for too long.
Again.
However, there are a great many things we want to share for late night/early bird readers from the world of pop culture, community news and top headlines.
KCPD End Standoff Peacefully
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man who lives on a school bus got into a 90-minute standoff Thursday night with police in Kansas City, Missouri, after a suspected domestic incident. According to KCPD, the incident started about 7:30 p.m. as rolling disturbance between an ex-boyfriend in one vehicle and his ex-girlfriend in another vehicle, a police spokesman told 41 Action News.
Over 5 million dollars could’ve fixed a lot of streets and pipes...
Instead lickass creates a homeless problem so he can add it to his list of accomplishments (failures) for his senate run. I hope people are recording these things to show the whole state of Missouri what a loser and failure he’s been for kc, if he were to become senator, he would ruin missouri with his childish thinking.
Think about it, lickass can’t get potholes fixed so how is he supposed to take care of an entire state, and then there’s the I hate the police thing, Jesus Christ he would cut the highway patrol in half and crime would go up 1000%
Prez Biden gets timely reminder that criminal justice reform presents unique bipartisan opportunity
I complained in this post that Prez Biden did not have all that much to say about criminal justice issues in his lengthy speech to Congress this week. But I now see from a number of news reports that criminal justice reform got some brief, but especially notable, bipartisan attention after the speech. This
Washington Post piece, headlined GOP lawmaker who voted to overturn Biden’s election win wants to help him on criminal justice reform, provides these details:
Moments after President Biden concluded his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, he was greeted by lawmakers aiming to get in some coveted face time with the president. Among them was Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Tex.), who helped barricade the entrance of the House Chamber during the insurrection Jan. 6 but still voted to overturn the election that Biden won.