Fool’s Gold: One good education cut deserves another
March 31, 2010
by David Safier Today, Clint Bolick weighed in on education funding, poaching on Matthew Ladner's territory. And though the style is different, the malady remains the same. Bolick's opening argument is that we're spending a lower percentage in the classroom now than we did in 2000. He ends by concluding, that means we should cut
Good reporting, Good column-ing
March 31, 2010
by David Safier Here are a few wonderful moments in this morning's Star. I loved a 2 paragraph passage in Howard Fischer's article about the governor and legislators' attempts to get Arizona to join the health care lawsuit. Adams complains about the "mandate" that he later has to admit really isn't a mandate. House Speaker
The Farley Report: March 30, 2010
March 31, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD28): Oops, she did it again. Yes, Governor Jan Brewer has chosen to call her Eighth Special Session. Perhaps you may be thinking — wow — she finally decided to do the right thing and is going to reinstate KidsCare so
I take my economics straight up and coastal, thank you very much.
March 30, 2010
by David Safier B. Kalafut, an occasional commenter here, wrote this about me on his blog: Safier is on the wrong side of very many things and probably read his econ texts upside down and backwards . . . Ben, you're mostly, but not completely wrong. I used to challenge my econ profs by telling
Civil Nonobedience
March 30, 2010
by David Safier Russell Pearce and his cronies hate children. It's no big deal for them to cut education to the bone and eliminate KidsCare. But their animus increases when the children have brown skin. To further their extreme right wing agenda, they're willing to sacrifice those children's chances to get an education and potentially
8th Special Session: Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
March 29, 2010
Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musngs OK, they're not so "special" any more, but this one is definitely a "show". In fact, it is almost *all* show with no "substance," but that isn't stopping Jan Brewer and the Republicans in the legislature. On Monday, the opening curtain rose, and some bills were introduced
G.I.’s “Busdrivers are bureaucrats”: an update
March 29, 2010
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute hasn't changed its answer to my "Are you really saying bus drivers are bureaucrats?" question. So G.I. is still holding to Ladner's laughable statement that there is "an almost 1-to-1 teacher to bureaucrat ratio" in our school districts. That can only be true if bus drivers, maintenance workers and
The editors of the Arizona Republic owe its readers a retraction and an apology
March 29, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: David Safier briefly touched upon this story yesterday in Arizona media in the news. An editorial opinion published in the Arizona Republic on Sunday is one of the worst examples of falsehoods and false equivalencies presented as fact by the editors of a major publication – presumably professional journalists – in some
