Rep. Regina Cobb Wants To Undermine The Minimum Wage Act Citizens Initiative
Last October, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith blocked Arizona from collecting $1.1 million from the city of Flagstaff to compensate for its minimum wage that is higher than the state’s rate, ruling that the state missed a deadline for the assessment and was stretching a law targeting higher voter-approved city wages to collect its … Read more
(Updated) Rep. Kavanagh Bill To Make It A Crime To Record Police Misconduct On A Cell Phone Passes House Committee
Last week MSNBC’s Joy Reid reported on a Black teen handcuffed by police at mall while white teen was scared of what could’ve happened (MSNBC Video. YouTube requires an account to sign in to view this video). “Z’Kye Husain, the Black teenager who was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by police at a NJ … Read more
Fox News Promoting Slow-Motion Insurrection: Bringing It’s Anti-Vaxxer Trucker Blockade to Washington, D.C.
The fascist propagandists at Fox News are trying to bring their “Canadian” – actually MAGA anti-vaxxer – trucker boycott to Washington, D.C. long enough to dsrupt President Biden’s State of the Union Address on March 1. Treat this as part of the slow-motion insurrection being promoted daily by this fascist propaganda network since the violent … Read more
SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Appeal Over January 6 Committee Subpoena For Archives Documents
Update to Trump Makes Desperate Appeal To U.S. Supreme Court To Block The National Archives From Producing Documents To The January 6 Committee. CNN reports, Supreme Court officially ends Trump’s recent legal fight to block document turnover to January 6 probe: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it will not take up former President … Read more
Help Put Democrats on the Ballot for AZ Corporation Commission
We need Democrats on the ballot at every level of Arizona’s government. We should and must contest for every race, every office, in every district. One of the lesser-known, but vastly important offices in Arizona government are five commissioners of the Arizona Corporation Commission – the fourth branch of our Arizona government. Today I’m asking … Read more
New Housing Units Under Construction At Highest Level In Almost 50 Years
Update to Institutional Investors Buying Up Properties Are Putting Inflationary Pressure On Rents And Home Prices. Some good news (maybe) today. Axios reports America’s housing boom is also a backlog: America doesn’t have enough homes for all the people who want to buy them. So the construction sector is getting busy — or at least … Read more
Worst Person in Arizona: AZ Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita
This week’s worst person in Arizona is current Arizona Senator, likely hopeless candidate for Secretary of State, and definitely creepy sex pest, Michelle Ugenti-Rita. While explaining her inexplicable vote to pointlessly deprive our children of over a billion dollars in school funding, she called public education supporters (mainly teachers) watching from the gallery “educational terrorists”. Never … Read more
BREAKING: #AZFiscalCliff Avoided! AEL Cap Waived by Senate for 2022!
Breaking news, the Senate just passed HCR2039 in this first day of crossover week. This is excellent news, but, of course, it only waives the cap for this year, and this issue will probably arise again next year. I’ll update this post as more information becomes available. For now, just be aware that the AZGOP … Read more
