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by David Safier From the Arizona Guardian (subscription only): Health care and child care facilities will have to pay thousands more to be licensed in Arizona under new fee schedules released Tuesday that are intended to make businesses shoulder the regulatory cost. The largest child care centers will see their licensing fees increase 90 times … Read more
League of Women Voters Forum on City of Tucson Ballot Propositions
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The League of Women Voters is sponsoring a public forum on Monday, October 19, 2009 on the City of Tucson ballot propositions. Speakers for and against the propositions will present their cases. Here are my brief descriptions of the propositions: Prop. 400 "Home Rule Option" – seeks to allow the City of … Read more
Way to stay classy, Horne
by David Safier Tom Horne is playing coy about running for Attorney General, but he's already made his first campaign promise, and it's a doozy. State schools Superintendent Tom Horne says he has not decided whether he will run for attorney general next year, but he has promised his biggest campaign contributors that, if elected, … Read more
Joy Christian acts uncharitably
by David Safier Last week the Republic broke a story about students at Joy Christian, a private school, using the services of Sequoia Choice, and online charter school, to furnish coursework for its students at taxpayer expense. That's a major violation of ethics, and possibly the law, by both schools. Now, Joy Christian has kicked … Read more
The Mad Haters Tea Party
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The mad haters of the Tucson Tea Party will be holding a little soirre Saturday to compare new and creative ways of "how to hate Barack Obama even more!" at Tucson Electric Park. So much hate, so little time. (And a desicration of a cathedral of baseball.) The teabaggers will not be … Read more
President Obama reacts to being awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From The White House – Blog Post – Building a World that "Gives Life to the Promise of Our Founding Documents": In reacting to the news this morning that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, the President struck a note of humility and recognized that the award was a nod to a … Read more
2009 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Barack Obama
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From ITN World: The Nobel Committee announced Friday that the annual peace prize was awarded to Barack Obama, just nine months into his presidency, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy: The award cited in particular Mr. Obama’s … Read more
