Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and February 2023 news and views Note: Excerpts are from the authors’ words except for subheads and occasional “Editor’s notes” such as this. Feb. 1 Top Headlines Washington Post- Las Vegas Review-Journal, Investigative Report: Alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire, Lizzie Johnson New York Times, Investigation: At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties, Steve Eder Washington Post, Rep. George Santos says he’s stepping down from committees amid fabrications about his biography Washington Post, With a million people, an ecstatic…