Rosemont Copper sued again
March 30, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas filed a complaint Thursday alleging that the project’s developer has violated state law requiring disclosure of a past bankruptcy involving top officers. Rosemont accused of hiding bankruptcy link from state:
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas accused Rosemont Copper of illegally failing to disclose that a current and former director – Richard Warke and Donald Clark, respectively – were officers of a company that was involved in a high-profile Canadian bankruptcy in 1995.
The group complained to the Arizona Corporation Commission that Rosemont Copper is engaged in a “pattern of deception” dating back seven years.
“If Rosemont Copper is hiding a corporate bankruptcy from regulators and the public, what else are they hiding?” Vince Rabago, an attorney representing the group, said at a news conference Thursday.
Reminder: Democratic Presidential Caucuses This Saturday
March 30, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Lots of stuff going on this weekend, but if you are a registered Democrat, it is time for the Presidential Caucuses. Announcements from the Arizona Democratic Party: Arizona Democratic Presidential Caucuses This Saturday PHOENIX, AZ–This upcoming Saturday, March 31, Democrats from across Arizona will be coming together for the 2012 Arizona Democratic … Read more
Sen. Paula Aboud withdraws from CD 2 congressional race
March 30, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen Paula Aboud (D-LD 28) posted on her Facebook page this morning that she is withdrawing from the CD 2 congressional race and is supporting Ron Barber for the CD 2 congressional seat: Today, I am announcing that I am stepping out of the Congressional District 2 race and extending my support … Read more
A response to Justice Antonin Scalia
March 30, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: During oral argument of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Antonin Scalia posed this question to the Solicitor General of the United States: You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? (gallery laughter) And do you really expect the court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give … Read more
Imagine Charter Schools have the St. Louis Blues
March 30, 2012
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by David Safier This has been coming for a long time. Imagine Schools, a for profit company with the most charter schools of any EMO (75 last time I counted), is facing all kinds of problems with its six low performing Missouri schools which enroll a total of 3,800 students. Missouri Baptist University, which sponsored … Read more
Reagan Solicitor General, Charles Fried, critical of conservative activist SCOTUS
March 30, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Charles Fried is a professor of law at Harvard University. From 1985 to 1989, he served as President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general. He specializes in constitutional law and is the author of many books on the subject, including 2004’s “Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court.” He also wrote a brief on behalf of 104 law professors arguing that the individual mandate is constitutional.
Professor Fried spoke to Greg Sargent after three days of oral argument on the Affordable Care Act and was highly critical of the conservative activist Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong? – The Plum Line:
[F]ormer Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried was scaldingly critical of the willingness of the conservative bloc of Supreme Court justices to traffic in some of the most well-worn Tea Party tropes about Obamacare.
“I was appalled to see that at least a couple of them were repeating the most tendentious of the Tea Party type arguments,” Fried said. “I even heard about broccoli. The whole broccoli argument is beneath contempt. To hear it come from the bench was depressing.”
Professor Fried earlier gave interviews to Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post.
Is it the end of a tax break, or a tax hike?
March 30, 2012
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by David Safier I haven't gone after the Star's headlines for awhile because they've seemed far less slanted than they once were. I figure, when the headline prepares me for the content of the article, it's a reasonable headline. Not so today's Star headline, GOP blocks Obama effort to raise taxes on oil firms. I … Read more
Will Huppenthal target University-level Mexican American Studies next?
March 29, 2012
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by David Safier This story, let me begin by saying, comes from Fox News Latino, not from some out-there, lefty radical publication. Here’s the headline: Arizona Official Considers Targeting Mexican American Studies in University It looks like Huppenthal thinks TUSD’s Mexican American Studies program could never have come into existence without the outside agitation of … Read more
