The House Passes a Much-Needed Expansion of the Child Tax Credit; 424,000 Arizona Children Could Be Lifted Out of Poverty
One of the misfortunes of the American Rescue Plan was that the provisions to expand the Child Tax Credit for the nation’s families expired at the end of 2021 after helping drop the child poverty rate to its lowest rate in decades. While several states, including Arizona, sought local remedies to partially or fully make … Read more
Fitz: The Cyber Ninja Saga, Part 3
Crossposted with permission from David Fitzsimmons’ excellent SubStack ‘Arizona’s Progressive Voice’. Why aren’t you paying subscriber, already? Back in December of 2020, after Biden whupped Trump fair and square, a fruitless six-hour hearing was conducted by Senate Judiciary Chairman Eddie Farnsworth, a bilious character right out of “Green Acres”, found no evidence of any fraud, malfeasance, … Read more
Arizona Democratic Legislative Caucus Leaders Nancy Gutierrez and Oscar De Los Santos Discuss the Big Picture for the Current Legislative Session
AZ Dem Legislative Caucus leaders Whip Rep. Nancy Gutierrez and Assistant Minority Leader Rep. Oscar De Los Santos joined TheDGT.org’s Program Director Michael Bryan and President Joe Daniszewski for a substantive discussion about the issues and controversies in the current session of the Arizona State Legislature. For the impatient, here is the Otter.ai transcript of … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and Democratic Legislators Take Their Agenda to the Public and the State Capitol
Over the last week, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, with Democratic Legislators and Progressive Public Policy Activists has taken their agenda, outlined in the Governor’s recent State of the State address, on reproductive freedom, increasing public school funding, Empowerment Scholarship Account accountability, and prescription drug benefits to the public and the State Capitol in the form … Read more
Good Riddance Kyrsten Sinema
Kyrsten Sinema won’t say the words, but she has telegraphed that she won’t run for re-election to the US Senate. She has no base of support. Long before she announced on Dec 9, 2022, that she was independent, she abandoned the Democrats who elected her. Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, … Read more
MAGA Lies and Inaction on the Border Screw America to Serve Trump
I was going to tear the MAGA Caucus apart today, but woke up to Jay Kuo having already done so quite effectively on in partnership with the Substack the Big Picture, so I am just going to quote him here and encourage readers to subscribe to his own SubStack the Status Kuo, as I do. … Read more
January 2024 Has Seen Many Positive Developments for Phoenix
The first month of 2024 has seen Phoenix, building on the achievements from the last few years, make many advances to help move the city forward and lift its residents up. On January 9, the Phoenix City Council passed a prevailing wage measure that will mandate construction workers on city projects earn a fair wage. … Read more
