Posted by AzBlueMeanie: During the 1980s this country went through a farm crisis in which thousands of family farmers lost their farms to foreclosure (including friends and neighbors of mine). The Midwest Farm Crisis of the 1980s: On March 17, 1986, protesters used tractors and other farm machinery to surround the Livingston County FmHA office … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "King" Russell Pearce gets a lot of media attention for his anti-immigrant hate mongering. But one of his early "successes" (sic) was Prop. 200 in 2004, which required that voters be able to produce both identification and proof of citizenship prior to being allowed to vote in any election. This was a … Read more
by David Safier Headline from the Salt Lake Tribune: Immigration: Utah wants world to know it’s no Arizona Utah legislators just passed a few immigration bills that allow police to use their discretion in checking people's immigration status when they make a stop. And people aren't required to carry their papers with them. And Utah … Read more
by David Safier The charter school, Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School in Yuma, may be doing a great job seeing as how, "The school posted some of the highest gains in three grades on the AIMS test of any of the 1,337 schools analyzed by The Arizona Republic and USA Today." But … Read more
by David Safier USA Today put together a research story about teachers and administrators cheating on high stakes tests, and the results, while perfectly predictable, aren't pretty. In the six states studied, including Arizona, the researchers found whole classes and whole grades at some schools where the students made unbelievable — literally, statistically unbelievable — … Read more