At the Start of National Apprenticeship Week, Hobbs, Gallego, and TSMC Usher in New Semi Conductor Career Pathway Programs
November 19, 2024
With the start of National Apprenticeship Week across the country, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, and Arizona Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC’s) President Rose Castaneres announced the expansion, in partnership with Estrella Mountain Community College, Northern Arizona University, Grand Canyon University, and Western Maricopa Education Center, of its Registered Technician Apprenticeship program
Representative-Elect Yassamin Ansari Calls Out Trump Executive Branch Choices and His Goals For Mass Deportation
November 19, 2024
Not sworn in yet but Arizona House Congressional District (CD) Three Representative-Elect Yassamin Ansari is making her views known on some of Donald Trump’s MAGA-Project 2025 choices to lead cabinet posts and other Executive Branch positions. On Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Matt Gaetz, the Representative-Elect posted: On the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As a Democratic Strategist, I Know Exactly Why We Lost Arizona
November 19, 2024
The Arizona Democratic Party has been hemhorrhaging voters for years. It’s time to change our message and motivate the people once again. Matt Grodsky is a partner at Matters of State Strategies. He was the communications director for Adrian Fontes’ 2022 secretary of state campaign and served as communications director for the Arizona Democratic Party
Project 2025 Will Cause Banks to Fail
November 19, 2024
Now that Republicans have won the election, Project 2025 will become operative. Project 2025 plans to merge the FDIC with other banking agencies, which is a recipe for a financial disaster. The FDIC protects people against losing their deposits up to $250,000 per depositor per bank if an insured bank fails in the United States.
A Masterclass in Futile Resistance
November 19, 2024
There’s a misguided idea simmering on X/Twitter by a so-called resistance fighter and it’s about as brilliant as starving yourself to hurt the grocery store. The idea? Crash the economy by refusing to participate in it. Yep, this economic flat-liner says we can defeat the Republicans’ anointed messiah by hoarding money under the mattress.
Republicans Claim to Want to Stop Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government; They Can Start With Their Arizona Private School Voucher Program
November 18, 2024
Since the Ducey Gubernatorial era that saw the expansion of the Empowerment Scholarship Program to universal access, there have been repeated reports by credible news organizations of widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in the system. Of course the original promise by the advocates of this expansion, that poor families could use the scholarship program to
Anti-vaccination insanity
November 17, 2024
Dear readers, I was impressed by this piece written by epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, so I’m copying it here in its entirety (with her permission). Note that it was written before Election Day; but rather than editing it to reflect what has happened, I prefer to provide the column as is. While I have my own
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs Launches New Semiconductor Work Force Training Program
November 17, 2024
At Gateway Community College in the Maricopa County Community College District, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and other technology, education, and government leaders launched a new program to help train apprentices and trainees in building semiconductors. Part of the Future48 Workforce Accelerator Program, this fifth such initiative “will offer customized, hands-on training in support of the
