Political Calendar: Week of June 14, 2020
June 14, 2020
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Jacqueline Smith believes “Our Students’ success is Our entire Community’s success”
June 13, 2020
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Professor Jacqueline Smith would be a stellar addition to the Maricopa Community College Governing Board. An educator with degrees in mathematics, economics, and law, Professor Smith is currently the Vice President at the Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University. She is also a Professor of Practice at the Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s … Read more
Tucson Medical Center’s COVID Unit Nurse in Conversation with BlogForArizona.net
June 12, 2020
I had the pleasure of speaking with nurse Kathryn Teyechea of Tucson Medical Center, who for 11 weeks during the peak of the initial outbreak in Tucson, Arizona managed the nursing team at that hospital’s COVID-19 Unit. We had a half-hour (or so) long conversation via Zoom, which is embedded here below, that you can … Read more
For Cara Christ’s Sake Covid Spikes Again!
June 12, 2020
Yesterday’s update by AZDHS head honcho, Dr. Cara (no relation to Jesus) Christ was some of the coldest bedside manner I’ve ever seen come from a doctor. All the while Governor Ducey did his best to assure the rest of us to stay calm because if/when we do get the COVID the hospitals in the state … Read more
Michael Flynn and the Trump ‘Injustice’ Department had a tough day in court
June 12, 2020
I listened to oral argument this morning in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit case of Michael Flynn, and the Trump “Injustice” Department’s attempt to dismiss Flynn’s guilty plea, asking the court for relief to force District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan to dismiss the guilty plea and to not use an appointed amicus to … Read more
The military establishment reasserts it is apolitical ahead of West Point graduation
June 12, 2020
On Thursday, Joint Chiefs chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley apologized for the “Battle of Lafayette Square” to clear this public space of peaceful protestors for Donald Trump’s famous “crossing of Lafayette Square,” for a cheap photo-op at St. Marks Church on the other side of the square, and B-roll video of routing protestors to use in his campaign … Read more
Dr. Cara Christ Should Resign and Ducey Doesn’t Work for You
June 12, 2020
Governor Ducey continued his campaign to do absolutely nothing about the growing COVID-19 epidemic in Arizona at his Thursday, June 11th presser. Dr. Cara Christ sat next to him and backed his lack of any plan to the hilt. I watched in fascinated horror as Ducey admitted that the epidemic was growing in Arizona (start … Read more
The Mayors of Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Tucson do not Share Governor Ducey’s assessment of the Coronavirus in Arizona
June 12, 2020
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For those who did not quite understand the crux of Governor Doug Ducey’s defensive Press Conference yesterday where he played Kevin Bacon from Animal House, please recognize that the Coronavirus (COVID 19) has been on the rise in Arizona, hospitals and other health care facilities are close to reaching full capacity, and if the … Read more
