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Blog for Arizona Calendar events have gone virtual
April 11, 2020
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
Progressive Laura Conover on Local Criminal Justice
April 11, 2020
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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
AZ Democratic Party Goes Online to Boost Campaigns during the Coronavirus
April 11, 2020
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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
Taxes Paid By Billionaires Decreased 79 Percent Since 1980, as Percentage of Their Wealth
April 11, 2020
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[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
Surveillance for COVID-19 – Update
April 11, 2020
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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
In 2020, Trump and his MAGA cult turn their racism on China – and the World Heath Organization
April 11, 2020
Politico recently reported that our appointed, not elected senator Martha McSally calls on WHO director to resign: Sen. Martha McSally is calling on the World Health Organization director general to step down over what she deems his assistance in covering up China’s underreporting of the coronavirus, part of an escalating series of GOP criticisms of … Read more
Candidates Team Up to Petition Governor to Save Hospitals
April 10, 2020
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Two candidates for local office have launched an online petition calling on Governor Doug Ducey to release emergency money to Arizona hospitals that are facing revenue shortfalls due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One local hospital has already said it would be forced to close its doors if relief is withheld. The Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital announced that it … Read more
Republicans are using the Coronavirus crisis to kill the U.S. Postal Service
April 10, 2020
Update to If Republicans succeed in killing the U.S. Postal Service, there will be no mail voting. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” — only hostile Republicans who want to kill the U.S. Postal Service can accomplish this. The New … Read more
