“The Clock is (Still) Ticking” on Arizona Public School Funding After Another Week of Inaction at the State Senate
February 18, 2022
While the Arizona State House has passed a measure lifting the State Expenditure Cap on Education spending, the Senate has failed to follow them and everyone has departed for the President’s Day Holiday Weekend. When they return to the state capitol on Tuesday, there will only be seven calendar days for the Senate Republicans to
The MAGA/QAnon Cult Is Quite Insane: ‘Get Rid Of Voting Machines And Hand Count All Ballots’
February 18, 2022
First of all, Arizona counties do not have enough resources appropriated by the state legislature to conduct elections. They are always being shortchanged. This is why counties accepted grants from civic groups in 2020 to cover their actual costs of running an election during a Covid pandemic. This too was the subject of wild-eyed MAGA/QAnon
Paul Krugman: ‘Mr. Biden, Your Good Economy Won’t Sell Itself’
February 18, 2022
It’s “Morning In America” again, people. Accept that there is good news and allow yourself to feel good about it. Stop being “nattering nabobs of negativity” and wallowing in Covid Hell self-pity. Brighter days lie ahead, Bunky. Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has good advice for the Biden admnistration today which they would be
Get Active Now Before it’s Too Late
February 18, 2022
If we thought 2020 was an important election, the stakes are even higher now. The 2022 midterm elections are critical because our democracy is on the line. Republicans who sought to overturn the 2020 election results are running for offices up and down the ballot. No Republican should be elected to office who believes in
‘Pro-Inflation’ Party Saboteurs Are Blockading President Biden’s Nominees To The Fed
February 18, 2022
Sedition Party members of Congress daily take to the floor of Congress to rail about inflation before the C-Span cameras. Republicans believe inflation is a winning issue for them – just don’t ask them what their plans are for dealing with inflation resulting from supply chain disruptions caused by a global pandemic. They don’t have
Good News: The Student to School Counselor Ratio has Lowered But More Work Needs to Be Done
February 17, 2022
A report released this week by the American Counselor Association has revealed that the Student to Counselor Ratio in Arizona Public Schools has gone down from 905 to 1 in 2019 to 716 to 1 last year. While not all the Grand Canyon state data is in yet, one reason for the welcome lowering of
UPDATE: AZ Justice Suddenly Recuses Himself In Election “Audit” Public Records Case
February 17, 2022
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has recused himself from further participation in the swirling appeals involving last year’s election “audit”. Bolick participated in the four previous actions related to the “audit” (and previous cases related to the 2020 elections), but just discovered on Tuesday that his wife – State Rep. Shawnna Bolick – received
NY Judge Rules Trump Crime Family Must Sit For Depositions
February 17, 2022
CNN reports, Trump and his children may be deposed by New York attorney general, judge rules: Former President Donald Trump, as well as his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., must sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation of their business practices, a New York judge ruled Thursday. New York Supreme Court
