Photo gallery of 2024 Tucson Japanese Festival
After a 3 year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition (of which I am the Editor of the website) decided to host our annual Tucson Japanese Festival once again at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center (1288 W. River Rd.), on March 23, 2024. We had previously hosted this as … Read more
Arizonans Amanda Shelley and Steve Gomez Describe How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Them and Their Families.
As President Biden remarked to then-President Obama at the White House following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) “this is a big f—king deal.” And it still is. For 14 years, the ACA, or Obamacare, or Romney Care before the one-time Republican Massachusetts Governor and current Utah Senator disowned his health care plan … Read more
Wage Gap and Reproductive Rights
March 12, right in the middle of Women’s History Month and four days after International Women’s Day, was Equal Pay Day. Women must work until March 12 to catch up to what white men were paid by December 31, 2023. Women are still paid 78% of white men’s pay, with little change seen since the … Read more
UPDATED 3/28: Meet LD17 Candidate John McLean with TheDGT.org! Recording Online Now!
UPDATE 3/28: Watch John at TheDGT.org’s Monday Zoom on March 25th! With a famed Bruce Willis’s “Die Hard” name and the looks of Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Arizona Legislative District (LD17) State Senate Candidate John McLean believes “in true public service, where legislators put the community’s interests above their own.” That would be quite a change … Read more
UPDATED 3/22: TheDGT.org Visits With Our Democratic Candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission – Nominate Them Now!
UPDATED 3/22: We are in the home stretch, folks. It is the final week to collection nomination signatures and we urgently need to get our ACC candidates on the ballot! Any Democrat or independent in the state of Arizona can nominate our three candidates in the E-Qual system. So grab your driver license or voter … Read more
This Latest Biden/Harris Ad Reminds People that, Yes, They Were Worse Off with Trump During COVID Four Years Ago
The Trump Campaign is fast ruing the day that his surrogates like his daughter-in-law went on the airwaves, saying that the country was better off four years ago with her father-in-law running the country than President Biden. It has not taken long for commentators in the world of nonfiction (this writer included) to refute that … Read more
Part Two: President Biden Launches Latinos For Biden and Celebrates the Benefits of the CHIPS Act for Arizona and the Country
On President Biden’s second day in Arizona, he journeyed to the South Chandler Intel Facility to announce that the chip company will be receiving an $8.5 billion grant from the CHIPS Act to develop technologically advanced computer chips that will meet the commercial needs of the American People and the national security mission of the … Read more
