Give your public school tax credit before December 31
December 21, 2011
by David Safier An individual can give $200 to a public school — or break it up among a number of schools — and get 100% of it back at tax time. Once again, that's 100% back, no cost to you. A couple can give $400. You have to do it by December 31. Remember,
Andy Thomas is in Big Trouble
December 21, 2011
Posted by Michael Bryan We here at BfAZ have expended considerable pixels over the past few years following, and criticizing, the abuses of Andrew Thomas as Maricopa County Attorney, and then his campaign for Arizona's Attorney General – and what a nightmare Attorney General Andrew Thomas would have been… We've been harsh, and we've been
Feliz Navidad
December 21, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jose Feliciano sings Feliz Navidad. Time to fire up some Christmas tamales for dinner– my favorite!
My work here (at the Explorer) is done(?)
December 21, 2011
by David Safier A letter in today's Explorer, the weekly freebie out of Oro Valley, Marana and points close, complains about the paper's "biased liberal agenda." Just picked up and read The Explorer for the first time in a few months and I was amazed at what a biased liberal agenda has been moved into
Ladies and gentlemen: Today’s Republican Party
December 21, 2011
by David Safier Hat tip to Steve Benen on the Washington Monthly's Political Animal for making the connection. A line from Ben Affleck's film, "The Town," could have come from the mouths of the Republican Party leadership. Affleck's line: “I need your help. I can’t tell you what it is. You can never ask
(Tentative) Congressional and Legislative District Maps
December 21, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Below are the Congressional and Legislative District Maps tentatively approved by the AIRC on December 20, 2011, pending analyses by the panel's legal counsel and voting-rights consultants. The AIRC must still vote to ratify the maps after receiving the legal and technical analyses. I am curious to hear from the Green Valley/Sahuarita/Quail
More administrator/teacher cheating in Georgia
December 21, 2011
by David Safier Atlanta had a huge standardized test cheating scandal that rocked the city's schools. Now it's the turn of the Dougherty school system, also in Georgia, according to an Education Week story (subscription only). The investigation showed cheating took place in at least 11 of 26 schools in the district, which is located
Why am I not surprised? No politicians to be charged in Fiesta Bowl scandal
December 21, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I could have written this post months ago and saved it. There was simply no way that well-connected politicians (or their lobbyist handlers) were ever going to be charged in the Fiesta Bowl scandal. We have allowed a culture of lobbyist corruption to flourish in Arizona since the AZ-Scam scandal years ago. The
