Women’s Equality Day, an aspirational goal not yet fully realized
August 26, 2020
Today is Women’s Equality Day. Why is August 26 known as Women’s Equality Day? The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote nationally on August 18, 1920, so why is Women’s Equality Day on August 26th each year? The simple answer is that even when a constitutional amendment has been ratified it’s not official
Blog for Arizona Calendar migrating to our new website
August 26, 2020
As many of you read on August 13, our Blog for Arizona founder/attorney Michael Bryan announced that we are morphing into a new website design: https://blogforarizona.net/an-all-new-blogforarizona-net-is-coming-soon/. Our target date is next Monday August 31, 2020. Because of this change, I haven’t been posting too many events in our image Calendar, awaiting the new site to
Stop the Trump and Arizona Republican War on Social Security and Medicare
August 25, 2020
Fortunately for the country, most businesses have not bought into Donald Trumps Executive Order calling for a “holiday” of payroll taxes until early 2020. Knowing that the Executive Order is nothing without Congress approving the holiday, many businesses have indicated that they will still withhold the payroll tax proceeds from their employees and either hold
I Have Questions About That $300 Supplemental Unemployment Benefit
August 25, 2020
Over one million unemployment claims were filed last week, according to data from the Department of Labor (DOL), rising to a seasonally adjusted 1.106 million for the week ended Aug. 15, from an upwardly revised 971,000 in the prior week. The national economy has regained only 9.3 million of the 22 million jobs lost between
Michael Cohen Strikes Back at Donald Trump
August 25, 2020
American Bridge PAC has released a new Anti-Trump ad starring Michael Cohen, Individual One’s co-conspirator and former “fixer.” The roughly minute and a half ad has Cohen alone making the case why people should not reelect Donald Trump for another four years. Saying he “was complicit in helping conceal the real Donald Trump,” Cohen told the
The Alternate Reality Republican National Convention
August 25, 2020
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” – 1984, by George Orwell I was struck by something the Washington
The Biden/Harris Ticket Goes on Offense with Three New Ads
August 24, 2020
Over the last 24 hours, the Biden/Harris ticket has demonstrated they are not going to take this election for granted. The 2020 Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential Nominees appeared in a joint interview on ABC News. The campaign, on the first day of the Republican National Convention, also released the names of over 20 former
New York AG Asks Court to Enforce Subpoenas Against the Trump Organization
August 24, 2020
Update to Second Circuit denies stay, sets September 1 hearing for Trump financial records. While the Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance, Jr. has a September 1 hearing date, let’s not forget that there is another long-running investigation into the financial records of the Trump crime family’s criminal enterprise in New York. The New York Times reports
