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Ethnic studies resolution updates
April 25, 2011
by David Safier The Star's editorial came out in favor of the resolution TUSD Board President Mark Stegeman will present at the Tuesday Board meeting. The spirit of the editorial is reasonable, but there is a huge flaw in logic similar to Stegeman's — the idea that you simultaneously downgrade the MAS history courses to
(Update) The new corporate business model: higher profits, fewer jobs
April 25, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a story I did not get to last week while the Tea-Publican Arizona legislature was laying waste to our state, the Wall Street Journal reported Big U.S. Firms Shift Hiring Abroad (subscription) summarized at the Huffington Post, U.S Multinationals Increasingly Hiring Abroad, Firing At Home: In the last decade, American multinational
Ad campaigns against the GOP vote to end Medicare
April 25, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In a significant escalation of the progressive campaign to make Republicans pay a political price for voting to end Medicare, the progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change will run broadcast TV ads in the districts of Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Paul Ryan (R-WI). Significant
The People’s Budget praised by serious economists, dismissed by the clueless Arizona Daily Star
April 25, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Oh geezus, the Arizona Daily Star finally got around to mentioning our local Congressman Raúl Grijalva's "People's Budget" from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but it was only a mention in the godawful "political notebook" where stories that the Star has not reported on go to die in one paragraph dismissive tones and
The GOP war on public employees: Special Session coming
April 25, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have told you about Frank Antenori's secret plan to end civil service merit selection system for county employees, and Craig gave you a preview of Coming Attractions: A "special" session of the legislature to turn every state job into a political patronage job. The only solid reporting on Jan Brewer's behemoth
Marshall Home™, Billionaire Democratic Mayoral Candidate, is None of the Preceding Things
April 24, 2011
By Arizona Roadrunner Tonight I witnessed an interesting meeting at Drinking Liberally with Tucson Democratic (sic) Mayoral candidate Marshall Home™. That's not a typo: Marshall has trademarked his name. And that is the tip of the weird iceberg that is the Marshall Home™ worldview. If I told you that someone admired Michael Savage and Neal Bortz as really smart
Time to update the Arizona constitution: A few modest proposals
April 24, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings. Apologies for the delay in posting this one here – turns out that venting isn't good for my speeling. Had to correct a bunch of typos first. Hope I caught them all. 🙂 This state is in serious trouble, the kind of trouble that won't be cleaned up for generations
Mari Herreras comments on Ethnic Studies resolution
April 24, 2011
by David Safier The Weekly's Range has an extensive comment by Mari Herreras on the Ethnic Studies resolution proposed by TUSD Board President Mark Stegeman. Among the concerns she raises about the resolution is the question, why now? While Stegeman, Pedicone and the board's particular brand of "support" for ethnic studies often seems downright odd,
