“That’s a Certainty!” Governor’s Support For Protecting Arizonans With Pre-Existing Conditions Disappears With Bill Signing

“Health insurance companies should cover people with pre-existing conditions. That’s a certainty!” That was Arizona Governor Doug Ducey’s no-mincing-words statement in the weeks leading up to his re-election last fall. Yesterday, the Governor signed into law SB1109, erasing the pre-election certainty. Now, short term health insurance policies will be offered to some Arizonans which contain … Read more

Nancy Pelosi steers the right course

The “Dems in Disarray”™ meme is really getting a workout from Washington Post reporters Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis. These concern trolls really need to knock it off. For example, ‘Like herding cats’: Pelosi struggles to unify Democrats after painful fight over anti-Semitism — Democrats were united and voted unanimously for the Anti-Semitism resolution, and for … Read more

Five Ways the U.S. College Fraud Scandal Hurts Arizonans.

We all understand that often a wealthy parent will fund a slick new campus building or a state of the art library on an elite college campus, thus securing their child’s admission to said elite university. This sort of deal happens often and most of us have come to accept it as not quite fair, … Read more

Donald Trump betrays his supporters with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

“Budgets are moral documents,” has been attributed to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To borrow Dylan Matthews’ caption from 2017, “Budgets are moral documents, and Trump’s is a moral failure.” The most amoral and corrupt president in U.S. history released his budget proposal on Monday. The only consolation is knowing that this budget proposal … Read more

The 38 Mile March for the ERA in Arizona

Somewhat surprisingly, the Arizona Republic today gives decent media coverage to Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley’s “38 Mile March” for the ERA, which kicked off on Monday. Tipping point on ERA? Arizona supporters to march 38 miles to push for ratification: Literally carrying the same banner as women’s rights advocates decades before, Arizonans began a three-day … Read more