The Senate Railroad Is Chugging Right Along…
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As we speak, the Senate is conducting floor consideration of Russell Pearce's "budget" bills. The bills were introduced late on Tuesday (yesterday), received committee consideration this morning and afternoon, Caucus consideration this evening, and now is going into Committee of the Whole, or COW, to consider amendments. The live … Read more
Reasonable Utah immigration bill has backing of Mormon Church
by David Safier Surprising things have been going on in Utah lately around the subject of immigration. I won't go so far as to say they're progressive or I agree with them all, but they make Arizona look like the bastion of bigotry it is. And encouragingly, the Mormon Church has put its seal of … Read more
Coup D’etat in Michigan: The ‘Financial Martial Law’ Bill on Way to Governor
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Place your bets now on how long it will take for Arizona's Tea-Publican Legislature to propose similar legislation in Arizona. They loves them some authoritarianism! Reuters reports the Michigan House gave final approval on Tuesday to granting state-appointed emergency managers broad powers to break labor deals with failing schools an cities, and … Read more
The GOP war on Planned Parenthood
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A humorous video by the Partisans from Andy Cobb and TheSecondCityNetwork about the GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood:
National “research-based education” company to investigate Mexican-American Studies program
by David Safier Carolyn Classen posted about this on Carolyn's Community at the Citizen. TUSD Supe John Pedicone received a letter from J. Elliott Hibbs at the ADE stating "a national company specializing in research-based education solutions" has been engaged to investigate the Mexican American Studies program to determine if it is "complying with the … Read more
Baja Arizona Update
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I thought for sure our local Arizona newspapers would have picked up this Wall Street Journal report from Tuesday on Baja Arizona since they had referenced the fact that WSJ reporters were doing a story in earlier reporting, but Nooo. It even contains the sneering bias that you would expect from a Rupert … Read more
Union Members Rally for Wisconsin Workers
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Event Notice: The nationwide mobilization against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's new anti union bill will hit Tucson on Thursday outside a Wisconsin Badgers NCAA March Madness Basketball game. Please join us in a show of solidarity for our Wisconsin Brothers and Sisters. Thursday March 17, 2011from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PMNW Corner … Read more
