Arne Duncan gets tough — next time
by David SafierNow that stimulus money for education is being doled out, Ed Sec Arne Duncan is giving states a preview of what it will take to get more money next year: data about performance. Things like: State test scores side by side with National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores. This could cause some … Read more
AzBlueMeanie says, cast your votes for Arizona’s best blog
by David SafierWe here at BLOG FOR ARIZONA are too classy to go around begging people to go to the comments section of The Fix, Chris Cilliza's blog, and vote for BLOG FOR ARIZONA as the best political site in Arizona, the state for which BLOG FOR ARIZONA is named. But as AzBlueMeanie mentioned, another … Read more
Can the state legislature raise taxes with a simple majority?
by David SafierEight people from Arizona's universities got together to look at various ways Arizona can deal with our budget crisis. The group calls itself the Fiscal Alternative Choices Team — FACT. Clever acronym. So the 65 page paper they just released is called The FACT Report. Who can argue with FACTs? By the way, … Read more
A little friendly competition, cast your votes now!
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tedski over at R-Cubed reports that Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post is once again running a “Best State Blogs” survey. He is, for the second year in a row, basing this on the opinions of his readers. If you would like to vote for Blog for Arizona, you simply make a … Read more
April Fool’s Joke: The GOP Budget Plan
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Republican leadership's insane clown posse finally released its GOP's budget report (PDF) today, on April Fool's Day no less, following their fiasco of a press conference last week (the comedy just writes itself with this gang who couldn't shoot straight). I have quickly read through the GOP plan – easy to … Read more
The GOP “hit and run” on our economy
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The DSCC has a new ad which looks at the core ideology of the Republican Party and its policies of deregulation that led to our current economic crisis.
