by David Safier Here's what I've heard. If anyone knows more, please comment. Oro Valley held city elections May 18 along with the Prop 100 vote. Two candidates ran for mayor. Satish Hiremath was the conservative candidate who ran with lots of local business support. Mike Zinkin was the more progressive candidate, supported by Oro … Read more
by David Safier Friend of El Blog and Assistant Principal at Lynn/Urquides Elementary Patt Hale emailed me Thursday, giddy with excitement, about a grant her school's library received. Today the story is in the Star: The Lynn/Urquides Elementary School library is about to undergo an extreme makeover after receiving a grant that will outfit the … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/t to the Rachel Maddow blog Arizona's Pearce goes after moms: "If we are going to have an effect on the anchor baby racket, we need to target the mother. Call it sexist, but that's the way nature made it. Men don't drop anchor babies, illegal alien mothers do." That statement was … Read more
Posted by Craig McDermott From a Howard Fischer story in the AZ Daily Star – Arizona laws which give matching dollars to publicly financed candidates for office when their privately funded foes spend more are legal, a federal appeals court ruled today. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of … Read more
by David Safier Doesn't this sound a little police state-ish to the right wing? It does to me. If a police officer has "reasonable suspicion" you are in the U.S. without the proper papers, you are considered guilty until proven innocent. Based on nothing more than looking nervous and wearing the wrong clothes — we're … Read more