A Chuck E. Cheese mascot in Florida gets arrested – in costume! Vermont moves to make public its data on detained immigrants. Maryland counties target paid house parties. Murder cases in New Orleans take a long time to solve.
As we mention here regularly, Decision Points primarily focuses on national and international news. But we also occasionally deliver a roundup of local, regional or under-the-radar news with a political dimension – something unusual or interesting, or that may illustrate a broader trend.
Our guiding principle is that the definition of politics includes how a society organizes itself to allocate finite or scarce resources, manage internal disagreements and blunt external threats…