Sauce: Tucson Together donation night Tuesday, 2/22
by David Safier Eat at Sauce Tuesday, Feb 22, 11am-9pm, and 20% goes to Tucson Together. Advertisement Advertisement
Quick Giffords update
by David Safier This from the UK Daily Mail, via Nancy Young Wright on Facebook. (We live in a strangely, occasionally wonderfully wired, interconnected world.) Gabrielle Giffords is now able to laugh and respond to jokes, eat sushi, and when asked how she was feeling, she said 'I'm better'. Go Gabby!
Three notes of praise for today’s Star
by David Safier Note this in your diaries, BfA readers. Today I praise the Star three times ("Once, Twice, Three Times a Paper") without a hint of snark. 1. The ever-praiseworthy Fitz just keeps getting better in his weekly column. Too many great lines to quote, but here are a few: Attorney General Tom Horne … Read more
An Aha moment
by David Safier Yesterday I wrote about a proposed 50% increase in the amount each person can give as a private school tuition tax credit. (Note, by the way, the bill doesn't offer a similar increase in the public school tax credit, which is already less than half the private school amount.) But I also … Read more
AHCCCS in the Crosshairs
by Michael Bryan HHS Secretary Sebelius has indicated that Gov. Brewer's plan to kick everyone who is not federally mandated to be eligible (about 250K people) off Arizona's Medicaid program (AHCCCS) will not violate federal law. Federal eligibility is governed by a number of factors , not income alone, which means that even some people under … Read more
50% rise in tuition tax credit limit. Booze profits for private schools?
by David Safier First the part of HB 2581 I understand. If passed, this bill would allow individuals to raise their yearly private school tuition tax credit contributions from $500 to $750 — a 50% hike. That means a couple's contribution would go from $1,000 to $1,500. Since every dollar of tax credit is a … Read more
Legislative weekly wrap up, with a quick preview of next week
by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings The Arizona legislature's activity, week of February 14. 2011, in review – – The big news this week was the passage of a massive corporate tax cut bill in a special session. The bill, HB2001, is "massive," both in terms of its impact on the state's fiscal situation (blowing a … Read more
