I like hearing stuff like this
by David SafierIn today's Star, there's a story about City High School students helping out the family of a recent graduate whose family has a combination of financial and health problems. They did some yard work and trash hauling at a mobile home the family is moving into, and they presented the family with a … Read more
Horne: Tax yourselves!
by David SafierA reader sent me a March 10 article from KTAR News with an easily overlooked paragraph where Tom Horne said, in essence, Hey, don't blame the legislators for schools' budget woes: Horne said that state lawmakers have taken an unfair amount of blame for recent cuts in education funding. He said the most … Read more
Stealing money from a baby? Not so fast.
by David SafierI noted 6 weeks ago that Republicans took $7 million from the First Things First fund to help balance the 2009 budget. Now, according to the Republic, The First Things First early-childhood-education board filed a lawsuit Monday to block the state from taking $7 million from a fund created by Arizona voters three … Read more
An AZ GOP poll
by David SafierFrom the Arizona Guardian: A majority of Arizona voters support a temporary tax increase to rescue the state from its deepening budget crisis, according the results of a statewide poll released Tuesday by the Arizona Republican Party. About 66 percent of the 607 likely voters surveyed said they would back a 1 percent … Read more
Putting the voucher discussion to bed
by David SafierThe State Supreme Court has spoken: vouchers are unconstitutional in Arizona. Yet we continue to argue about them here at BfA. Well, no more. Or not for awhile anyway. My sense is that vouchers will sit on a back bench in Arizona for awhile. Though voucher advocates have two basic avenues they can … Read more
Update II: The Party of No (New Ideas)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/t to BarbinMD at Daily Kos: This story just gets better and better – from The Washington Independent: While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at Citizen’s for Tax Justice crunched the numbers (PDF). They conclude … Read more
A liberal learns “The Blaine Game”
by David SafierI had some other items I wanted to blog about today, but Matthew Ladner of the Goldwater Institute has kept me pinned down on this voucher thing. As Al Pacino said in Godfather 3, "Just when I thought I was out . . ." When I wrote about the State Supreme Court ruling … Read more
