Notes From All Over -- Late Morning Edition -- June 25, 2020

Natural gas at new lows: $1.52.

Texas, corona virus: governor delays/postpones next "opening phase.

Mnuchin: hints at delaying the "July 15, 2020" tax filing deadline.

Reparations. The tea leaves suggest, sooner than later, reparations will be "passed." I think there are ways to make it work. It's one of those "aha" moments that emanates from the Covid pandemic. More on that later, perhaps.

Pandemic: I'm getting mixed messages. Are folks interested in "herd immunity" or not? 

Killing fields: more homicides in North Dakota in 2019 than in previous twenty years, in both rate and actual numbers. Link here.

• by year:
• 2019: 26
• 2018: 17
• 2017: 13
• 2016: 16
• 2015: 22
• close and personal: number of homicides involving firearms: 9
• domestic violence: 10 homicides; 2/3rds of victim, female;
• by location:
• Williston: 6 (includes baby boy, asphyxiation)
• Fargo: 5
• Wahpeton: 2
• Minot/Ward County: 2