What to Do when Democracy Can’t Wait
August 13, 2021
Recently, your correspondent and his wife attended a “Democracy Can’t Wait” rally at Himmel Park in Tucson. The organizer, Eric Robbins, was enthusiastic and urged all of us to take on three “Ten-tasks” in the coming weeks. More on that later. We attended the rally because we truly believe that Democrats in Congress need to
Bill Pierce Launches Second Campaign to become Arizona’s Next Mining Inspector
August 13, 2021
Bill Pierce is still on a mission to protect Arizonans and the Grand Canyon State’s environment and water supply from unsavory corporate interests that allow pollution contamination from existing and abandoned mining operations. After losing a fairly close race to become Arizona’s Mining Inspector in 2018, this engineer, who is also EPA trained in dealing
Census Data: Metro Areas Increased Population, Rural Counties Declined In Population
August 12, 2021
If you want to know why the white Christian nationalist MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is working overtime to pass GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression and voter disenfranchisement laws, and will now engage in extreme gerrymandering in order to maintain its tyranny of the minority, today’s release of U.S. Census data holds the
Rebel Alliance Of Educators And School Districts Are The Resistance To The Trump Death Cult (Updated)
August 12, 2021
Remember back when then-Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana in 2013 exhorted the Republican Party to “stop being the stupid party“? Republicans didn’t listen. They fully embraced stupid, by becoming the party which fully embraced wild conspiracy theories and performance politics, abandoning responsible governance for a post-policy, post-truth alternate reality fueled by right-wing media disinformation which
Don’t Reimburse Covid Hospital Costs for Anti-Vaxxers
August 12, 2021
Two weeks ago, when I wrote the article “Those Who Refuse the Vaccine are Facing the Consequences,” I couldn’t have imagined the number of comments that the article would generate, both pro and con. When I wrote the article I tried to explain that if you don’t get the Covid shot, you and you alone
Senate Democrats Tee Up Voting Rights Legislation For September – Cancel Recess, Do It Now
August 11, 2021
After Senate Democrats approved the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brought up a Motion to Discharge S. 1, the For The People Act. The Motion to Discharge S. 1 was also a party-line vote of 50-49. The anti-democratic insurrectionist Sedition Party remains committed to destroying American democracy with GQP Jim Crow 2.0 voter
Senate Democrats Approve $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution – Now Comes The Hard Part
August 11, 2021
The Biden agenda remains on track in the Senate. Senate Democrats approved a budget resolution early Wednesday morning that will allow them to pass a $3.5 trillion spending plan without GOP support later this year. Senate Democrats approve budget resolution, teeing up $3.5T spending plan: The Senate voted 50-49 to adopt the resolution, capping off
White House and Arizona Reaction to the Passage of the Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal
August 10, 2021
How many years did the American People hear Donald Trump boast that he could get deals on trade, health care, immigration, and infrastructure? Well, aside from a revised N.A.F.T.A. (where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats scored major concessions for American Labor,) the former Chief Executive Full of Himself never came close to finalizing
