by David Safier The South Arizona will rise again! Advertisement The Arizona Senate on Wednesday is scheduled to consider a bill to give the state legal authority to go to court to take ownership of land owned by the federal government. The bill sponsored for Republican Sen. Al Melvin of Tucson is 1 of many … Read more

by David Safier Today's Star editorial addresses the system designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who [almost] everyone agrees should not have guns. You know, criminals, the mentally ill, people like that. The three main problems the editorial said need to be fixed: 1) the "gunshow loophole"; 2) the lack of … Read more

by David Safier Shared sacrifice? I keep hearing that's why union members should give up pay and benefits to share the sacrifice everyone else is making. Shared sacrifice? The richest Americans screamed as if someone were threatening to cut off their right arms when people talked about returning their tax levels to what they were … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Announcement from the Pima Area Labor Federation: We need to show Arizona’s solidarity with Wisconsin and stand up against the threats we ourselves face. The Pima Area Labor Federation (PALF) needs you to plan on being with us for the Day of Action on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. We will take a … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP's war on the poor continued unabated on Tuesday with some truly awful bills. Arizona bills aim to slash spending by state: A state Senate panel took hours of testimony Tuesday on bills that aim to shrink government, from abolishing Arizona's Medicaid system to revamping the higher-education system and using drug … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Senate today will consider major changes to three public-pension systems with a bill that would force police, firefighters, politicians and corrections officers to pay more to fund their retirements and suspend cost-of-living raises for retirees. Arizona Senate set to consider big changes to pensions: Senate Bill 1609 would improve the … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am sure our squishy-soft Sally Sensitive political reporters will take exception to the above caption, but truth be told, this is in essence what occurred on Tuesday in the Senate Appropriations Committee. Arizona's Senate Appropriations Committee "became the first state legislative committee in the nation to pass a package of bills intended … Read more