LD 10 PCs Send a Slate of 3 Candidates for State House to Pima Supervisors
This evening, November 15th, LD 10 held an election via Zoom and ElectionBuddy to select three candidates for selection by the Pima County Board of Supervisors to replace Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton in the Arizona House. Senator Stahl Hamilton resigned her House seat when appointed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors to the LD … Read more
A Great Day for the American People, Arizona, and the United States: President Biden Signs the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
On a historic day for the American People and the United States, President Joe Biden, flanked by 800 guests of both major political parties, signed the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. As many Democrats have remarked: infrastructure week has finally come. Joe Biden is the master of the art of the deal. The Bipartisan Infrastructure … Read more
The AZ GOP’s Gerrymander is Underway!
If you are a reader of the Blog for Arizona, you know that Arizona is in the process of redrawing its boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts. The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) is required to provide a 30-day public comment period. We are in that time window now. The last hearing is currently … Read more
House Democrats Expect To Pass the American Families Plan (Reconciliation Bill) This Week
The Associated Press reports, White House confident Biden’s bill will pass House this week: President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser expressed confidence Sunday that the White House’s $1.85 trillion domestic policy package will quickly pass the House this week and said approval couldn’t come at a more urgent time as prices of consumer goods spike. … Read more
Inflationary Psychology and GQP Fear Mongering Over Inflation
Neil Irwin recently wrote at the New York Times, Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs. They Also Think the Economy Is Awful. Americans are, by many measures, in a better financial position than they have been in many years. They also believe the economy is in terrible shape. This is the great contradiction that … Read more
An Explainer on High Meat Prices: It’s A Corporate Monopoly. Time For Some Trust Busting
NBC News aired this report over the weekend on the high price of beef. Don’t blame cattle ranchers. They are taking a beating from climate change and a prolonged mega drought in the West. They are also getting screwed over, as are consumers, by the “big 4” meatpackers who have monopoly power control over 80% … Read more
What Caused America’s Supply Chain Crunch? Corporations And Greed
When the Coronavirus Pandemic hit in January 2020, much of the world’s economy literally shut down as country after country went into lock downs in an effort to slow the spread of the disease. People were no longer working producing goods. Manufacturing corporations try to match their production to demand, trying to keep a minimum … Read more
In Conversation with LD 9 AZ State House Candidate Nathan Davis
I’m quite dissatisfied with the current state of political discourse in the United States. Too many sound-bites; too little real conversation. Too much empty rhetoric and culture-war nonsense; too little reflection on the real issues and challenges we face as a self-governing society. I think these are pretty common sentiments these days. Luckily, I’m in … Read more
