Some Good News: Mayor Kate Gallego and Phoenix City Council Deliver on their Housing Plan Goals…Five Years Earlier Than Projected
In 2019, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and the then Phoenix Council unveiled, of the COVID 19 Pandemic and Recession that dominated in 2020, the Housing Phoenix Plan that was designed to create or preserve 50,000 housing units by 2030. Fast forward five years and Gallego and the current Phoenix City Council announced that the 50,000 … Read more
Musk and Trump Are Making the Country Less Safe
In the three weeks that the Musk/Trump team has been in power, they have succeeded at several initiatives, none of them good. One constant from all the chaos that the Musk/Trump team has sowed over this period is how much they have made the country and the American People less safe. Several examples of how … Read more
College Dems Petition for Protection from ICE Raids on Campus
To fight Trump’s crackdown on immigration, the UofA College Democrats are petitioning the University to not cooperate with ICE agents, to protect student information and to educate students, faculty and staff on their rights. Under Trump, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more than 3,500 unauthorized immigrants. The nationwide expansion of “expedited … Read more
Third Way Writers Offer a Strategy for Democratic Party Resurgence
With a slim plurality of voters last November deciding to support a person that had been twice impeached in his first term, indicted for enabling an attempted coup to stay in power, found liable for sexual assault, convicted 34 times for business mismanagement, and driving the country into a ditch largely because of his mismanagement … Read more
Pro & Con discussions on City of Tucson’s Prop 414
City of Tucson Special election coming up on March 11, 2025 re: Prop. 414 called the Safe & Vibrant City proposition, asking voters to raise the City sales tax by half a cent for 10 years: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/Government/Office-of-the-City-Manager/Proposition-414 The Choice is Yours publicty pamphlet (also in print mailed to voters): https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/2/clerks/documents/elections/25saztuc_choice-is-yours-2025.pdf AZPM’s “The Press Room” show … Read more
Mayes, Gallego, and Kelly Take Action Against Musk/Trumps Incompetence and Defiance of the Courts Toward Head Start
It seems the Musk/Trump Administration, through predictable gross incompetence or juvenile defiance, are not fully complying with court orders that mandated them to resume doling out Congressionally approved funding to the states or government agencies. One of the organizations experiencing funding lapses at some of its entities across the country is Head Start, the Johnson … Read more
😡 UPDATED Pow! Federal Courts Block Trump and Elon’s Radical Attacks on Democracy
Over the last few days, federal judges across the country blocked several of Trump’s dictatorial edicts and Elon’s access to Treasury records. More injunctions are coming soon. More litigation is on the way as Americans lawyer up to fight the orange tyrant in 21 lawsuits, including: San Francisco sued Trump, alleging ‘authoritarian’ threats against sanctuary … Read more
