Meg in Progress

Thursday, March 4, 2021
Last week the United States House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, a massive bill that should give long-overdue and desparately-needed assistance to struggling Americans. Included in the bill was a provision to increase the federal hourly minimum wage over a four-year period to reach $15 per hour. The wage increase has been a hotly debated issue within Congress and its fate largely depended on the determination of the Senate parliamentarian on whether it qualified to be part of the Senate budget reconciliation package. In the end, and perhaps not very surprisingly, the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, decided it did not. It's a complicated bureaucratic issue that I will attempt to explain in the simplest terms possible, though I admit to not having the deepest understanding of the nuances of the problem. Read more…
politics

02/27/21 Sat
On the weekend before Last, the US Senate concluded the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, who had been impeached for inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6.. Read more…
politics

Saturday, August 22, 2020
In my last post, I went over how I set up this blog solely in org-mode. And since that post has been published, I've made a few more changes to the configuration and so, in an effort to provide the most up to date information, I figured I'd write a little addendum. Read more…
dev

dev There's always something new to discover with emacs and org-mode, and building a blog was my way of wading into deeper waters - not longer content to just get my feet wet. Read more…