The Dead, the University and the Pope
by David Safier This post is a bit of a stretch, but it’s Sunday, which is my Day of Stretch. Optional headline: Secular Meets Scholarly Meets Sacred. Advertisement First, the Secular Meets Scholarly part. The Grateful Dead “will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa … Read more
Crunch Time for Tucson School Closings
by David Safier Unless the TUSD School Board decides to “consider” the issue of school closings one more time, Tuesday should be the big night for Ochoa, Corbett, Wrightstown and Rogers elementary schools. The Board is scheduled to vote on the school closure issue at its 7pm meeting (1010 E. 10th St., for anyone interested … Read more
Rating Service for Election Processes
Link: Rating Service for Election Processes. This is one of the most sensible and useful—and ambitious—ideas I’ve seen come out of the Election Integrity community to date. John Denker is undoubtedly a goddamn genius. Read this, and then slap your forehead and yell, "Of course!" This is not a little local idea, however. This is … Read more
Are Tax-And-Spenders Moving Off Arizona’s Endangered Species List?
by David Safier (TASL) Could it be that tax-and-spenders are coming back into style? An editorial in the Citizen says that a business group, the Time Coalition, is advocating raising our sales tax by a cent to pay for improvements to transportation. The Citizen agrees with the idea of raising taxes but suggests the bulk … Read more
Pima County Becoming Mildly Deranged Over Election Integrity
The recent supplementary hearing on release of the GEMS election databases here in Pima County showed just how little substance there is to the County’s objections to further public disclosure. They have been unable to substantiate their overheated claims that release of these public records would harm election security. They even admit that the Pima … Read more
The Day The Levees Broke: McCain’s Birthday More Important to Bush
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sen. John McCain visited the lower 9th ward of New Orleans this week, claiming that he would do a better job of handling natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina than George W. Bush. Katrina response ‘disgraceful,’ McCain says | www.azstarnet.com ® McCain declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he … Read more
Clinton Went and Won Pennsylvania, and All I Got Was this Obama T Shirt
by David Safier Your roving correspondent returns to Tucson, unbloodied and unbowed. Actually, I had a great time. It was almost perfect, give or take a few percentage points. So now it’s back to the education beat. Let’s see, what’s happened since I was gone? I hear: • Russell Pearce wants a law that says … Read more
