Governor Hobbs’ Budget Focuses on Border Security, Water Supply and Fraud in the ESA Program
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has unveiled her 2025/26 budget proposal, and it reflects the priorities she laid out in her State of the State Address when she called on State Legislators to work with her to achieve “Arizona’s Promise.” In a Gubernatorial Press Release, the Governor’s Team highlighted the following features of Ms. Hobb’s proposed … Read more
It Appears Speaker Mike Johnson Has Never Heard of the Separation of Powers
Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more
Gallego and Kelly Will Regret Supporting the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka ‘Laken Reilly’)
It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more
Hobbs Funds Border Security and Mayes Helps Dreamers
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes both tackled the issue of immigration yesterday (January 15, 2025.) The Governor, according to an office press release, “announced $17.2 million in funding from the SAFE (Stopping Arizona’s Fentanyl Epidemic) initiative to support local law enforcement’s border security work, drug interdiction efforts, and combatting human trafficking.” … Read more
Increasing Access to Child Care, KidsCare, and Quality Foster Care Are the Legislative Goals for the Arizona Children’s Action Alliance in 2025
Hoping to build on the legislative successes of 2024 that included increases in funding for affordable child care, expanded KidsCare through AHCCCS, and continuing vital reforms in child foster care, Arizona Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is looking to the members of the State Legislature to enact several of their recommendations in 2025. They include: CAA … Read more
In His Farewell Address, President Biden Calls on the People to “Keep the Flame and Faith” While Fighting the Coming “Oligarchy of the Tech Industrial Complex”
In his last Oval Office Address as President of the United States, Joe Biden delivered his farewell address, thanking the American People for entrusting him with the American Presidency, calling on them to continue fighting for the American Ideal, ward off the rising Oligarchy of the “Tech Industrial Complex,” and to stay engaged and “keep … Read more
What Are Republicans Doing at Arizona’s and the Nation’s Capitols? Not Helping People
The United States Congress went into session on January 3. The Arizona State Legislature did so on January 13. What is the first legislative proposals to come down the pike to help the people in Arizona and across the nation? Not a whole hell of a lot. While measures are debated on the House floor … Read more
