Arizona loses another newspaper: East Valley Tribune
Posted by azBlueMeanie: Advertisement Earlier this year, Arizona suffered the loss of its oldest continuously published newspaper, the Tucson Citizen. Now Arizona will suffer the loss of the award winning East Valley Tribune. East Valley Tribune to shut down Dec. 31: The Tribune Newspapers will cease operations on Dec. 31, parent company Freedom Communications said … Read more
McClatchy News’ Investigative Report on Goldman Sachs – Part 3
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: McClatchy News continues its investigative report on Goldman Sachs with part 3 of the series Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag: Inside the thick Goldman Sachs investment circular were the details of a secret, $2 billion deal channeled through a Caribbean tax haven. The Sept. 26, 2006, document offered sophisticated … Read more
LULAC, PCDP and Arizona Democratic Hispanic Caucus Call on RNC Committeeman Bruce Ash to Apologize or Resign Over Racial Remarks
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Pima County Democratic Party (PCDP) has issued the following press release: LULAC, PCDP and Arizona Democratic Hispanic Caucus Call on RNC Committeeman Bruce Ash to Apologize or Resign Over Racial Remarks The League of United Latin American Citizens, the Arizona Democratic Hispanic Caucus and the Pima County Democratic Party are calling … Read more
McClatchy News’ Investigative Report on Goldman Sachs – Part 2
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: McClatchy News continues its investigative report on Goldman Sachs with part 2 of the series Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes: Goldman Sachs spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packaging them into … Read more
How to get better teachers
by David Safier The NY Times has an interesting op ed about creating a better crop of teachers. It's a suggestion for a new model of teacher preparation. First, have our top colleges and universities "take education seriously" and offer top flight education programs. (Teach for America has demonstrated that the top universities are potential … Read more
McClatchy News’ Investigative Report on Goldman Sachs – Part 1
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I have written in this space before that I consider the giant Wall Street investment banks that nearly destroyed our economy to be nothing more than Ponzi schemes, a Casino Royale for unregulated speculative investments of no hard asset value, fueled by the greed of unscrupulous investors. To paraphrase Don Henley from … Read more
Frank Rich on GOP Stalinist Purges
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: New York Times columnist Frank Rich has more on the GOP civil war in the NY-23 special election for Congress. There will be no "winner" in this race. The big loser, however, is the Republican Party. The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York: [P]reposterous as it sounds, the real action migrated to … Read more
