On March 12, the first cancellation of events due to coronavirus concerns started in our Blog for Arizona image Calendar with the Pima County Dem Party’s Nucleus Club and speaker AZ Supe of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman. Already the very popular Tucson Festival of Books on March 14 & 15 had cancelled on the UA … Read more
Laura Conover is a progressive Democratic candidate running for Pima County Attorney. She spoke about criminal justice in a webinar hosted by Democrats of Greater Tucson. Watch it below from DGT’s brand new YouTube page: Laura Conover says: The Pima County Attorney manages a number of divisions tasked with keeping our community Safe and Sound. The County Attorney’s … Read more
With the appropriate social distancing measures in place across Arizona, political candidates find themselves in a quandary. Until the public health emergency subsides, they, and their supporters, can not physically go out and canvass in neighborhoods conveying their vision for the district, county, or state office they are seeking. They cannot hold rallies or other … Read more
[Note to BfAZ readers: This post by my IPS colleague, Chuck Collins, and me, which will be cross-posted at Inequality.org, is an intro to a briefing paper I just completed, making the case for a wealth tax. I invite you to click through to the briefing paper itself.] Conventional economic wisdom says a time of … Read more
The governor has already issued two executive orders for increased surveillance in AZ. He invoked A.R.S. §36-782 on March 23, 2020 (E.O. 2020-13). It calls for reporting, patient tracking, information sharing, and specimen testing coordination. It mandates that health care facilities shall share personnel, equipment, materials, supplies and other resources. He also invoked A.R.S. §36-784 … Read more