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Pima Board of Health Votes to End Anonymous Sales at Gun Show
August 19, 2021
The Pima County Board of Health has voted to require that only Federally Firearms Licensed vendors can sell weapons at gun shows at the Pima Fairgrounds. This will end sales by unlicensed gun dealers who sell guns anonymously without a background check and without keeping records. “Background checks are the only way to identify and
The Pro-War Bias Of The Media Has Failed Us In Covering The ‘Forever Wars’ For 20 Years
August 19, 2021
The media to a large extent has been a complete failure in covering the Taliban victory in Afghanistan after twenty years of Donald Rumsfeld’s “Forever Wars.” The cable jockeys have actually trotted out the Neocon war monger architects of the Forever Wars from the Project For a New American Century (PNAC), the George W. Bush
What COVID Deniers Call ‘Freedom’ is Just White Privilege
August 18, 2021
You hear it all the time: the anti-vaxxer, and anti-masker, and outright COVID deniers proclaim that they refuse public health measures in the name of their ‘freedom’. They are not using that word in a way that I recognize as anything approaching our traditional American concept of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, liberty and happiness;
Trip to Fantasy Land
August 18, 2021
Friday the 13th I decided I had to get away from the cell phone, computer, people, and heat, so I headed up north. Shortly after noon, I hit Payson and stopped to eat. I missed the first café so I went to the second (Bee Line) but as I went to pull in, it
Arizona Republican Budget Priorities: $40,000 to Investigate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples; $5 Million for Race Horse Owners and Jockeys
August 18, 2021
There is a lot to criticize in the Republican 2022 Fiscal Year State Budget. There is: A billion-dollar flat tax that favors the ultra-rich at the expense of long-term fiscal stability. The circumvention of funding Proposition 208-Invest in Education by making a small business carve-out for ultra-rich individuals or married couples. The lack of investing
Ducey Offers Families and Schools Financial Incentives to Be Unsafe and Spread the Coronavirus
August 17, 2021
Members of the former Party of Lincoln really are living in an alternative reality where: Lies are truth. Believing in science is bad. Personal freedom trumps public safety. Spreading disease is good. Today, the Governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey announced two financial incentive programs for families and schools that would incentivize denying scientific reality with
Voting Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Arizona Jim Crow 2.0 Voter Suppression Laws
August 17, 2021
Voting rights super lawyer Marc E. Elias tweets: From Democracy Docket: Voting Rights Groups Sue Arizona Over New Voter Suppression Laws August 17, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, various voting rights groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging two new voter suppression laws in Arizona. Mi Familia
House to Vote On The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Next Week
August 17, 2021
Breaking: The Washington Post reports, Democrats unveil plan to update landmark voting law: House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act, seeking against long odds to revive the civil rights-era legislation that once served as a barrier against discriminatory voting laws. The bill, introduced by Rep. Terri
