The Farley Report 1/26/10
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Farley Report this week: Advertisement It's been a quiet week in State Wobegon… Actually, it has been anything but a quiet week. More legislators are declaring their intentions to run for more offices, committees are pumping out some really suspect bills, House Republicans are trotting out their corporate-bailout deficit-expansion package, teachers … Read more
Rep. Nancy Young Wright (D-LD26) on the state budget
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Daily Star's series continues today with Rep. Nancy Young Wright (D-LD26). Formatted for transcript format. Rep. Nancy Young Wright, D, District 26 Rep. Nancy Young Wright, D-LD26 Committees: Ranking Democrat, Water and Energy, Education The Arizona Daily Star asked the following questions of each lawmaker: 1) Lawmakers have discretion over only … Read more
“The attack on Arizona teachers continues”
by David Safier From the Farley report: The attack on Arizona teachers continues. HB2395, introduced by Rep. Lauren Hendrix (R-Mesa), is an attempt take away teachers' voices by eliminating their ability to voluntarily pay dues to the Arizona Education Association — which represents them at the Capitol — through payroll deduction. No other union or … Read more
Fool’s Gold: Pure Propagandistic Garbage
by David Safier Today's Daily Email from Goldwater Institute's Matthew Ladner is worse than usual if only because it misuses the data from two good studies. There's not a factual inaccuracy to be found, only gross errors of overstatement and omission. The headline states the premise of the email: President Obama should transfer Head Start … Read more
GOP insane clown posse headed down the wrong track
The GOP insane clown posse refuses to acknowledge The First Rule of Holes: "The first rule of holes, when you're in one, stop digging."– Molly Ivins. Arizona is in the deficit hole it is in due to twenty years of GOP tax cutting that has reduced the tax base to the point that it can no … Read more
Harry Potter, meet Merriam-Webster
by David Safier Looks like going after all that sorcery and devil worship in Harry Potter books isn't enough. Now they're going after dictionaries in elementary schools. [A parent] called the principal of Oak Meadows Elementary School to say that entries describing oral sex in the dictionary were too explicit. The books were immediately pulled … Read more
Nonrecourse home loans in Arizona
by David Safier I'm a homeowner and not underwater, so this doesn't concern me directly, but I didn't know that in Arizona and California, homeowners have a special protection which says, if any of us defaults on a home loan, the lender can't go after other possessions. [In Arizona and California] mortgages are so-called nonrecourse … Read more
