Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On Saturday afternoon, more than 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's coup d'etat over union collective bargaining rights, and to welcome home the "Wisconsin 14" who nobly fought to prevent this miscarriage of justice. Advertisement You read about it online, including here, and there was some print … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Jon Perr at perrspectives.com posted Republicans Push National Race to the Bottom on March 1, then expanded upon his post in GOP to America: We're All Mississippians Now on March 10. His lengthy detail-rich economic analyses are a must-read: Republicans have seen the future and it's in Mississippi. On the same day Wisconsin Republicans turned … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings …as if those of us who live here haven't figured that out already. Brookings Mountain West, a partnership between the Brookings Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank, and the University of Nevada – Las Vegas (UNLV), today released its quarterly Mountain Monitor, tracking and evaluating economic data for the Intermountain … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Rachel Maddow Show recently did an hour long show divided into episodes about all the radical Republican mayhem happening in the states. Maddow concludes: "This is about a massive reallocation of resources held in common by the citizens to corporations for their private gain. And it is about a tactical kneecapping of … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings As usual, all info gathered from the website of the Arizona Legislature and subject to change without notice. Monday is expected to be a busy day at the Capitol, as there are expected to be lots of folks there to for Spring Break At The State Capitol.  People … Read more

by David Safier 2,405. That's the number of people who have been shot and killed since January 8, or as the Newsweek article puts it, "since Tucson." All told, an estimated 2,405 Americans have been shot and killed since Tucson, adding to the grim toll of 400,000 felled by guns since Martin Luther King Jr. … Read more

By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings All information available at the Census Bureau's American Factfinder page (watch the instructional videos, trust me 🙂 )… Census numbers for the state's 30 legislative districts – Geographic area                    Total population Arizona                                   6,392,017 LD1 (2010)                                 217,022 LD2 (2010)                                 177,904 LD3 (2010)                                 216,687 LD4 (2010)                                 294,239 LD5 (2010)                                 192,258 LD6 (2010)                                 … Read more