More Reaction to Tom Horne Recommending a Twenty Percent Budget Cut for Arizona’s Title One Schools
More reaction has emerged since the Blog for Arizona reported on Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne’s recommendation that Title One Schools may have to endure a twenty percent cut to their budgets for the 2024/25 school year while not doing anything to contain the growth of Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, a private school voucher program that largely … Read more
Bidenomics on the March: More Good News from the Job Market
Economists were predicting 200,000 jobs were created last month. Fortunately, they were wrong. The numbers in the March jobs report showed approximately 303,000 positions created and a drop in the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent. It is the 26th straight month where unemployment has been below four percent. Historically, the last time this trend occurred … Read more
“Civil War” futuristic movie coming to the Loft Cinema
STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 12 REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES PASSES NOT ACCEPTED 4/12 – 4/25 “From filmmaker Alex Garland (Ex Machina) comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman and … Read more
Reaction to Tom Horne Announcing a Recommended Twenty Percent Cut to Title One Public School Funding
When his own Empowerment Scholarship Account Director recommended common-sense reforms to the ESA handbook that included greater regulations like increased oversight of potential “luxury items” purchase requests, Arizona Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne persuaded the State Board of Education to defer revisions to the handbook until next year to allow for greater community feedback. … Read more
Seven Years Since Gorsuch, Elections Have Consequences
Conor O’Callaghan is running for Congress as a Democrat in AZ01. He is an Irish immigrant who grew up in Congressional District 1. He excelled in Scottsdale public schools, which took him to an Ivy League university. Conor has a B.S. in Economics, a B.A.S. in Engineering, and a Master’s in Public Administration from the … Read more
Hank Stephenson of Arizona Agenda and Rep. Analise Ortiz Discuss the Power of Housing Zoning Reform to Create Affordable Housing
An Interesting discussion ensued on Arizona Agenda’s (please consider becoming a paid subscriber, like me!) boozy livestream tonight about Gov. Hobbs’ veto of a bi-partisan zoning and code reform bill to override some city restrictions that prevent the construction of lower cost housing. The first third of the session with Rep. Ortiz (her TikTok is … Read more
Biden/Harris Campaign Releases Another Ad Highlighting Donald Trump’s War on Women’s Reproductive Freedom
With MAGA Republicans hailing the Florida Supreme Court’s authorization of that state’s MAGA-sanctioned six-week abortion ban, the Biden/Harris campaign unleashed another ad, called “Trust” attacking the person, whose Supreme Court nominees, made these draconian attacks on women’s reproductive freedom possible. The ad, narrated by President Joe Biden himself, starts with Donald Trump, during an interview, … Read more
