Prof. Jack Pitney was quoted in a piece discussing how President Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis are both scheduled to visit Northern California. “Right now, DeSantis only cares about Republican primary voters, and they like such maneuvers. It is hard to think of anybody who has lost a GOP presidential primary by being too tough on immigration. Even California Republican voters will like it. They’ll applaud just about anything that looks like a slap in Newsom’s face.

In a book review by The New Yorker, Prof. Henri Cole was featured for his work of poetry, Gravity and Center. The review stated: “This volume of sonnets by one of the form’s most distinctive practitioners calibrates tensions between mind and body, nature and culture, self and society, freedom and restraint.”

The Greater Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has officially released the California Competitiveness report that CMC Prof. Manfred Keil co-authored.

In an article in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Prof Jack Pitney was interviewed about the quality of bills mattering more than quantity among Congressmembers. “It’s not just the batting average of signed bills, but the significance of the legislation itself. One major reform of veteran benefits is far more important than dozens of bills to rename post offices,” he said.

In response to a question from a Marketplace listener on credit unions, Prof. Angela Vossmeyer said that  data from the National Credit Union Administration shows that six to seven credit unions on average, have entered conservatorship or liquidation annually since 2017. 

Prof. Jack Pitney was quoted in a piece on the debt ceiling debate and the contradiction between the Republican Party’s opposition to the social safety net and the reliance of their own voters on these programs. He stated, “You can’t have the kind of cuts the Republicans are talking about without hurting people, and a lot of those people are going to be Republicans.”