Marshall Home™, Billionaire Democratic Mayoral Candidate, is None of the Preceding Things
By Arizona Roadrunner Tonight I witnessed an interesting meeting at Drinking Liberally with Tucson Democratic (sic) Mayoral candidate Marshall Home™. That's not a typo: Marshall has trademarked his name. And that is the tip of the weird iceberg that is the Marshall Home™ worldview. If I told you that someone admired Michael Savage and Neal Bortz as really smart … Read more
Time to update the Arizona constitution: A few modest proposals
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings. Apologies for the delay in posting this one here – turns out that venting isn't good for my speeling. Had to correct a bunch of typos first. Hope I caught them all. 🙂 This state is in serious trouble, the kind of trouble that won't be cleaned up for generations … Read more
Mari Herreras comments on Ethnic Studies resolution
by David Safier The Weekly's Range has an extensive comment by Mari Herreras on the Ethnic Studies resolution proposed by TUSD Board President Mark Stegeman. Among the concerns she raises about the resolution is the question, why now? While Stegeman, Pedicone and the board's particular brand of "support" for ethnic studies often seems downright odd, … Read more
Blog for AZ issues a challenge: If you think you can do a better job of running this city, then you run for office and let the voters decide
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "Of course you realize, this means war!"— Groucho Marx, then later Bugs Bunny I have had enough of the constant bashing of the City of Tucson by its local daily newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star. Ever since Lee Enterprises bought what was once a great local newspaper, the Star has degenerated into … Read more
Andrei Cherny responds to the Arizona Republic on the ‘birther bill’
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I told you about the Arizona Republic's bizarre editorial taking Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Arizona Democratic Party Chair Andrei Cherny to task for not being "gracious enough" for Gov. Brewer's veto of the "birther bill," and then making a false equivalency between their impolitic statements and the nuttiness of the "Birthers, Birchers and … Read more
Ted Vogt tries to dictate to the City of Tucson to benefit his brother Tyler
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tedski has a post at R-Cubed about yet another Southern Arizona Tea-Publican authoritarian trying to super-legislate and dictate to the City of Tucson, this time Rep. Ted Vogt (TP-LD30) who is trying to dictate Tucson's election system in a way that he believes benefits his brother, Tyler Vogt, who is running for … Read more
The people speak: SB 1070 has had a negative effect on Arizona
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The East Valley Tribune published a week-long series entitled "SB 1070: A Year Later." There is an online (unscientific) poll One year after SB 1070 was signed, how do you see its impact on Arizona? which as of the time of this post has an interesting result: UPDATE: The Arizona Republic today … Read more
