Putin’s Initial War Plan For Ukraine Was A Tactical And Logistical Failure
March 2, 2022
Vladimir Putin “really believed he would be received in Ukraine with flowers” and as a liberator when he launched the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Did Putin somehow confuse Ukraine with the CPAC and America First Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida? Ukrainians, even Russian-speaking Ukrainians, are not “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans. They are defending their
The City of Phoenix Currently Projects a $76 Million Surplus for 2022/23
March 2, 2022
The City of Phoenix has released its initial budget overview for fiscal year 2022/23. Currently, the preliminary budget projections estimate a $76 million surplus in the city coffers. This surplus includes an estimated $44 million in one-time resources primarily caused by higher than anticipated vacancy savings and carryover of the City Council approved Coronavirus Relief
President Biden Hits a Homerun in the State of the Union Address; Arizona Democrats React
March 1, 2022
In his State of the Union speech this evening, Joe Biden showed why he is the President of the United States. From his opening remarks stating “we’re finally together again” and “we meet tonight…as Americans,” to his closing comments “the only nation that can be defined by a single word possibilities” and “the State of
Justices Argue EPA’s Authority to Regulate Carbon Emissions
March 1, 2022
On Monday, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to nix the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The Court’s decision could further impede President Biden’s plans to fight global warming, which is stalled in the Senate. The case, Peabody Coal Company v. EPA, was brought by Peabody Coal Company and several others
UPDATED: #ColdWar2, in Ukraine and in Arizona
March 1, 2022
[bctt tweet=”America, and the liberal international order we lead, have been engaged in a new #ColdWar2 with an autocratic alliance led by Russia and China for years now, but many of us have only recently become starkly aware of this fact.” username=”BlogForArizona”] Given that we haven’t widely realized this fact as a society, it’s really
Gigi Sohn FCC Nominee Bad for Media Diversity
March 1, 2022
Minority-owned TV networks have had to claw and scrape for years to earn a place in cable and satellite channel lineups. And even after breaking through these barriers, diverse creators and programmers still face existential fights against Big Tech strip-miners – aided and abetted, in some cases, by captured government agencies – eager to steal
Updated: Sen. Wendy Rogers Censured. Not Good Enough, She Must Resign Or Be Expelled From The Senate
March 1, 2022
UPDATE: The Arizona Democratic Caucus is demanding Senator Rogers resign: The Arizona House Democratic Caucus called on white nationalist Senator Wendy Rogers to resign after her Senate colleagues voted today to censure her for threatening colleagues and advocating political violence, but not for her string of anti-Semitic tweets and for speaking to a white nationalist
The GQP War On Voting: 2-Prong Attack On Early Voting Used By Up To 90% Of Voters
March 1, 2022
There are somewhere in the neighborhood of a 100 election bills that have been introduced in the Arizona legislature this year by the MAGA/QAnon election deniers promoting Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen from him through fraud. This week the bills that have been run through the Senate Government Committee chaired by
