Mike James

Diaz sees the various crises as an opportunity, a good time to make change and to rethink policing by challenging the status quo of policing.

"Aroused by the looming threat of closure, the wider community organized, filling the church hall that night to confront Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo."

"The streets of downtown have been abandoned by government and handed over to criminal activity.” 

At Casa now, 92 years after its first incarnation, it’s finally avanti tutta! Full speed ahead.

He signaled the message from last November’s election, that the “status quo is unacceptable,” that going back to basics is where good governance begins.

A "crime free-for-all."

It is no joke, but rather a profound danger to our democratic character and destiny and the future of journalism.

Reflections on the torn faces of survivors of the terrorist attack in Paris. One says, "I made it out alive, but now I am dead among the living."

Sometimes insisting — see Manchin/AOC/Jayapal -- on too much means delay, an image of incompetence, an erosion of public trust. Political purity comes with a cost.

I don’t know whether any candidate elected now or in elections to come can find a path that both restores our streets, allows still boarded-up shops to open again, and gives meaningful help to those in the alleys and storefronts along the street.