With the nation, unfortunately, crossing the threshold of 100,000 fatalities due to the Coronavirus, Joe Biden delivered a short address to the American People, expressing condolences and attempting to comfort grieving families and friends who have lost loved ones. Speaking from the heart and experience (remember he has lost one wife, daughter, and son in … Read more
From an email from local organizer Bonnie Poulos regarding the Campus Farms Neighborhood Association. Reprinted with permission. -Michael Bryan, editor BACKGROUND: Not since the late 1990s, when a developer on the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) asked the University to look into the economics of selling off the Campbell Ave Farm, has the Campus Farm been … Read more
The Arizona Unemployment System, as this writer wrote earlier on May 5, 2020, is “broken and needs to be fixed.” Nothing has really changed in the last 22 days. As Laurie Roberts of AZ Central commented in a piece on May 26, 2020: “More than 600,000 Arizonans have applied for unemployment this spring, nearly 25,000 … Read more
Michael Bryan has addressed in earlier posts the misguided emphasis by the Chamber of Commerce and their Republican allies to give businesses what will essentially result in immunity from legal liability for their actions, or inaction, in protecting their employees or their customers from the spread of the coronavirus. Just the opposite emphasis should apply. … Read more
Above Photo: Visitors crowd the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend on May 23, 2020. The headline in the Arizona Republic today is Arizona saw highest single-day ER visits; Yuma sees spike in cases related to COVID-19 over weekend: The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Yuma Regional … Read more