The Minneapolis City Council's plan to dismantle the city's police department following the death of George Floyd in police custody has some people concerned about how order will be maintained afterward.
It's a reasonable concern. All too often in public policy, overreaction to a scandal creates its own problems. The flip side of that, though, is tolerating abuse, mismanagement, or incompetence. That's too common in government.
President Donald Trump opened up nearly 5,000 square miles of ocean off the coast of New England to fisherman late last week.
Trump reversed the Obama administration's decision in 2016 that established the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod and barred fishermen from fishing the area. Former Maine Governor Paul LePage attended the roundtable talk with the president when he announced the decision Friday, June 5, according to Common Dreams, a news web site headquartered in Portland, Maine.
