Mayor Regina Romero and the Tucson City Council Approve Changes to the City Code for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
With Tucson receiving funds courtesy of the Bipartisan Infrastructure grant and the passage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act which made great investments in clean energy technologies, Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council, using the provisions of the Tucson Climate Emergency Declaration, “made code changes to require electric vehicle (EV) charging in parking areas … Read more
Arizona Fair Elections Initiative Appears Poised to Go on the November 8 Ballot as Proposition 210
Score a potential victory for the power and will of the people. Despite a recent court challenge that may result in the disqualification of thousands of signatures, the Arizona Fair Elections Initiative appears poised to go on the November 8, 2022, ballot as Proposition 210. In a letter to Governor Ducey’s office and a certificate sent … Read more
Katie Hobbs Rebukes Kari Lake’s Plan to Impose the Hillsdale Curriculum on Arizona Public Schools
After she lost her primary election in 2018 to Frank Riggs (who would fall to defeat to Kathy Hoffman that November,) then Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas called on the State Board of Education to replace the State Education Standards with the Hillsdale Curriculum, a private school program that originated in Michigan. At … Read more
Donald Trump And/Or His Incompetent Lawyers Are In Big Trouble For Lying To The FBI About Retaining Classified Documents
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, drafted a statement which Trump’s Lawyer Christina Bobb (formerly an OANN TV host who promoted Trump’s stolen election lie and the Arizona “Fraudit”), who is said to be the custodian of the documents, signed. It asserted that, to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned, … Read more
The Primary is Over – on to the General
Today, there are 77 days to Election Day 2022; but there are only 50 days to ballots dropping in the mail. The primary election is over. Some of the intra-party competitions have been extremely civil – for instance, Jevin Hodge and Adam Metzendorf vied for the CD1 nomination largely by presenting their own views and … Read more
2022 Judicial Retention Ballot
The Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review (JPR) is responsible for developing performance standards and thresholds, and conducting performance reviews of justices and judges who are merit selected and subject to retention elections. Currently this includes judges and justices serving on the Arizona Supreme Court, Court of Appeals Division I, Court of Appeals Division II, … Read more
Arizona Sued (Again) For Jim Crow 2.0 Violations Of The Voting Rights Act
Arizona has a long, sordid history of voter suppression, and it has only gotten worse Since Chief Justice John Roberts, who spent his legal career working to destroy the Voting Rights Act to make America safe for wealthy white Christian males who are Republicans, finally succeeded in gutting the Voting Rights Act with Shelby County … Read more
