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Note to the AIRC: Some bloggers are press entitled to First Amendment protection
August 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona Independent Redistricting Commision (AIRC) Republican Commissioner Richard Stertz suggested at the AIRC public hearing on Monday that anyone could be considered a blogger and could have contacts with the Commission's mapping consultant without that contact having to be logged in by Strategic Telemetry. This oversimplification seems valid at first blush. Any
“Please! Please send your child to my private school!”
August 23, 2011
by David Safier I find this amusing. A new private school, Avenues, is opening its doors in Manhattan. Lots of parents sent applications to the school of their children, and, most likely, to other schools as well. When some of them got accepted to established schools, they "rejected" Avenues. And they got letters begging them
Michelle Rhee takes vow of silence on D.C. cheating
August 23, 2011
by David Safier You're in danger of getting injured if you stand between former D.C. Ed Supe Michelle Rhee and a microphone — unless the interviewer wants to talk about the probable cheating on standardized tests which occurred on her watch. Rhee loves data. Give her test scores to look over, and she's in heaven.
Foreclosuregate Update: The Banksters of Wall Street to Evade Justice – Again
August 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have said from the very beginning that the standard of justice needs to be "somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail" when it comes to cleaning up the banksters of Wall Street. Unfortunately, the accumulation of great wealth in the hands of a very few on Wall Street means that
Making Sen$e: Income Disparity in America
August 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In case you missed the PBS documentary Making Sen$e last week, you can catch the video replay online. PBS' Making Sen$e: 'Land of the Free, Home of the Poor' | Crooks and Liars: Making Sen$e correspondent Paul Solman reports on the extreme inequality in the U.S. It's now on par with African
Prisoners of The Census gives Blog for Arizona a shout out
August 22, 2011
Posted By AzBlueMeanie: Prisonersofthecensus.org has a news blog and today gives Blog for Arizona a shout out for our reporting on prison-based gerrymandering. Leah Sakala posts Political blogger identifies first step towards ending prison-based gerrymandering in Arizona: BlogforArizona.com blogger “AzBlueMeanie” has recently written a series of posts about the problem of prison-based gerrymandering in Arizona.
Comments on Mark Stegeman’s constituent letter
August 22, 2011
by David Safier Mark Stegeman sent a constituent letter out today, and he was good enough to send me a copy. (NOTE: Though our disagreements about MAS have been pretty extreme, Mark and I have been casual friends for a number of years. We have talked about TUSD related issues since he has been on
AIRC Update: In other news
August 22, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The concerns raised by Republican Commissioner Richard Stertz that the executive director of the Commission executed the contract with Strategic Telemetry without proper authority was disproved by minutes from the June 29 and June 30 meetings of the Commission. The Commission voted 4-0 to reaffirm the contract, with Stertz voting "present." The
