On Thursday, March 19, 2020, the Arizona State Senate passed on a 27 to 3 vote, a skinny fiscal year 2021 budget with an additional $50 million in funding towards helping people get through the Coronavirus Crisis. The State Legislature unanimously passed a $55 million Anti Coronavirus appropriations measure last week. State House Republicans, under … Read more
In their second joint communication to Arizona Families, Governor Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman announced that Arizona’s public (traditional and charter) and private schools, because of the public health risk associated with the Coronavirus, will remain closed until April 10, 2020. Mr. Ducey and Ms. Hoffman both thanked the Education Community … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has rendered Donald Trump’s Nuremberg-style MAGA campaign rallies impossible, but no worries, he has found a new outlet, hijacking the coronavirus task force daily press briefings. And the news media is being used to “catapult the propaganda,” as George W. Bush infamously once said. Trump can’t hold his massive rallies because of coronavirus, … Read more
Donald Trump’s presidency is going to end the way it began. Trump used his inaugural address to do what no other American president has ever done before: he described America as a dystopian post-apocalyptic hellscape right out of Escape from New York. Trump takes office, vows an end to ‘American carnage’: “This American carnage stops right … Read more
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