Senator Martin Heinrich in the great outdoors
Martin Heinrich in the great outdoors. Source: Heinrich's Facebook page

Stuff you need to know, 12.3.23

“How two gun-friendly senators are turning the tide on gun safety”
by E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post
December 3, 2023

“Politics can be a maddening business, and success often requires changing the terms of the debate. That’s what [Senators Angus King (Independent-Maine) and Martin Heinrich (Democrat-New Mexico), who have both opposed an assault weapons ban] are trying to do by shifting the focus [in their proposed new legislation] from specific guns and toward features that can make ordinary weapons far more destructive.”

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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