Mass Backwards
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Farley Report 1/19/10
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: This week's Farley Report: The Capitol is emptying out a bit this week: Three Republican Senators have already announced their intention to resign and run for Congress — Paton against Giffords, and Waring & Gorman for the vacant seat left by Shadegg's retirement. Perhaps they were not looking forward to spending the … Read more
Vince Rabago to formally announce for Attorney General on Wednesday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the Vince Rabago for Attorney General campaign: Vince Rabago to Announce Plans for 2010 Attorney General’s Race at Wednesday Press Conferences in Phoenix and Tucson What: Press conference at which former Assistant Attorney General Vince Rabago will announce his plans for the 2010 Attorney General’s Race When: Wednesday, January … Read more
Live Blogging Senate Judiciary
Posted by Craig McDermott 3:34 – This post is getting to be too long, so I am ending this here out of respect of BfA readers and the other writers. It will be continued on my blog Random Musings, with a summary to be posted here later. 3:33 – GI claims to be neutral on … Read more
Correlation between poverty, low school achievement
by David Safier No one should be surprised to hear that schools with more low income students also tend to have low test scores. But it's still amazing to see how clearly the Arizona stats make that correlation. A reader sent me an excel spreadsheet of data he compiled from 3 public sources on the … Read more
CD 3 Congressional race heating up
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Congressman John Shadegg's retirement has the wannabe Congress critters crawling out of the woodwork. Already Rep. Sam Crump, who had been exploring a run for Attorney General, and Sen. James Waring, who had been exploring a run for State Treasurer, have announced they will run for Congress. On Monday, Sen. Pamela Gorman … Read more
Scarpinato proves my point
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In the SWAG Update I posted that Sen. Jonathan Paton's pre-arranged roll-out in the Arizona Daily Star makes me question whether the Star reports the news, or is acting as the media arm of the Paton campaign as it did when Paton ran for state representative in 2006 while serving in Iraq, … Read more
