A dangerous week ahead
April 5, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: When you start to see strike everything amendments scheduled for votes it is a clear sign that the legislative session is coming to an end. It is also the most dangerous time in the legislature, when bad ideas can be crammed through by the GOP insane clown posse leadership with little or
Citizenship test for high school students? How about a reliability test for G.I.?
April 5, 2010
by David Safier First we have a bill to hold back 3rd graders if their reading scores are too low. It exists because of a misrepresentation of the benefits of 3rd grade retention in Florida pushed by Matthew Ladner of the Goldwater Institute. Now we have a bill to make high school students pass a
Eating our grad school seed corn?
April 5, 2010
by David Safier Plenty of people are applying to go to college in Arizona as undergrads, but graduate school enrollment has fallen slightly. It may just be a bump in the road. But if it's more than that, the future of Arizona's ability to attract and hold businesses that produce high paying jobs may be
Arpaio Schadenfruede
April 4, 2010
Posted by Michael Bryan I got a warm feeling in my tummy watching this. Thought I'd share the feeling… This may be one of the biggest scandals to hit Arizona politics since, well, ever. Stay tuned for more Schadenfruedey goodness. If you ever had any doubts as to whether Arpaio had drank of the right-wing-nut-flavored
SWAG Update
April 3, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again to update candidate filings. The dance card is almost full. You can play along at home at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CommitteeSearch.aspx The only breaking news this week is the pending resignation of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to run for Attorney General. Speculation continues among the chattering class as to whether Maricopa
Opening Day: For Love of the Game
April 3, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Sunday is technically Opening Day for major league baseball, with the Seattle Mariners at the S.F. Giants, and the "2009 World Champion" N.Y. Yankees (God, it hurts to say that) at Fenway Park in Red Sox Nation (ESPN Sunday Night Baseball). The full schedule gets underway on Monday. President Obama will throw
I wish I could have been there…
April 3, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I was born and raised a Minnesota Twins fan. I can still recall the Twins' first World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at the old Metropolitan Stadium in 1965. The Dodger's Sandy Koufax pitched a 3 hit shutout in one of his greatest pitching performances ever for a 2-0 win at
GOP Taliban to dictate to charter city governments when they can hold elections
April 3, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this year the GOP Taliban enacted "Paton's Law" dictating to the City of Tucson that its elections must be non-partisan and ward only, legislatively overruling provisions of the City of Tucson Charter without any vote by the residents of Tucson. The legality of this questionable act is now in the Court
