Public Forum on Tucson Ballot Initiatives Today
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Pima Association of Taxpayers is sponsoring a public forum today on the Tucson ballot initiatives, the "Public Safety First" initiative (Prop. 200) and the TUSD budget override initiatives (Props. 401 and 402). Speakers for and against the propositions will present their arguments. Advertisement What: Public forum on ballot initiatives Where: Joel … Read more
Populism Consuming Representative Democracy
By Michael Bryan Tucson's ballot initiative to peg the ratio of emergency personnel to population seems to me to be the latest iteration of populist discontent being cynically used to snatch at political power while denigrating and disempowering representative democracy. Too frequently over the past few decades we have seen progressive institutions such as the … Read more
Water and Arizona’s Future
By Karl Reiner The water level in the Colorado River’s storage lakes has been steadily dropping, leading to the possibility that Tucson will face a water shortage in the future. As consumers of local ground water and supplies from the Colorado, we need to start paying attention to the problem. The combined effects of population growth, drought and global warming trends are turning the region’s water future murky. … Read more
Fact Checking GOP Tucson City Council Candidates’ Walk Pieces
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A Republican campaign worker dropped off walk pieces for the GOP Tucson Council Council candidates at my door today. (I understand that Republicans have $1 million to drop on this city council race and have the money to piss away on Democratic voters). Well, I'll make you pay for littering my doorstep … Read more
Imagine Schools in Arizona: an example
by David SafierThis is one of a series of posts, Peeking into Charter Schools. If you have information you wish to contribute, you can post comments or email me: safier@schooltales.net. I looked through the financial data on charter schools at the AZ DOE to get a sense of how Imagine Schools here spend their money. … Read more
The curious case of Mayor Bob Walkup
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Pima County Republicans, with the assistance of certain individuals at the Arizona Daily Star, have tried to characterize the Tucson City Council as "dysfunctional" and leaderless. First of all, the hands-down winner for "dysfunctional" government in Arizona is the Maricopa County government, where everyone is suing everyone else, and the Sheriff and … Read more
Welcome to Thunderdome!
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am a diehard baseball fan. I have not written about this season since opening day. Opening Day: For the Love of The Game But now it is the second season, playoff baseball for the ALCS and NLCS and World Series. October is the best baseball month of all. My hometown team … Read more
