AIRC presentation about the redistricting process
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Recommended viewing. Advertisement The video below is from the meeting that the League of Arizona Towns and Cities hosted to help shed some light on the redistricting process. Advertisement
Reminder: AIRC hearing in Nogales on Friday
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Friday, July 22, 2011City of Nogales 6:00 p.m.Nogales Unified School District #1Administrative Building/District officeAnita Lichter Board Room310 Plum StreetNogales, AZ 85621 The AIRC has posted the agenda at http://azredistricting.org/docs/Meeting-Info/Public-Hearing-072211.pdf It is important that Baja Arizonans turn out and make their voices heard to counter the threats and intimidation of the AIRC by … Read more
Tea-Publican Tyranny in Arizona: Threatening and Intimidating the AIRC
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last week I only half-jokingly asked "When is the Tea Party finally going to issue the crisply starched brown shirts and spit-shined jackboots … Show your true face to the voters. If you want to be our authoritarian overlords, do tyranny right. C'mon teabaggers!" Terri Proud of Tea Party Tyranny. Apparently they … Read more
Elizabeth Warren considering run for U.S. Senate
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Elizabeth Warren had been hoping for an appointment to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she conceived as a watchdog initiative in the wake of the financial crisis. She has served for 10 months as a special adviser to President Obama. But the prospect of Warren serving as head of … Read more
PCC open enrollment and TUSD deseg: quick takes
by David Safier I'm on the road and snagging a few morning moments to post, so I only have time for quick takes on two education topics which deserve far greater attention. I know many of you readers are knowledgeable in these areas — more knowledgeable than I, as a matter of fact. Please feel … Read more
How they voted on the GOP’s Gimmicks-R-Us ‘cut, cap and balance’ amendment
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Washington Post has the breakdown of the vote last night on the GOP's Gimmicks-R-Us "cut, cap and balance" amendment. Note that the vote did not even come close to the two-thirds majority vote required to pass a constitutional amendment in Congress. This was simply a symbolic vote for Tea-Publicans to feel … Read more
Murdoch owning ed data systems companies? What could possibly go wrong?
by David Safier Here are the three big pieces of this story: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp recently purchased Wireless Generation, an educational data company. Ex-NY City school chancellor Joel Klein is the CEO on New Corp's education division. Wireless Generation has "a $1.5 million no-bid contract for a data system utilized by the New York … Read more
