Featured Stories
Fighting for the Soul of Our Nation
August 13, 2022
Diane Ravitch published a great update on her blog yesterday, about Save Our School Arizona’s latest fight against universal vouchers and their urgent need for additional resources. Please read the post and then help support the effort by donating at, http://sosarizona.org/donate. If you live in Arizona and haven’t yet signed a petition, please go here
Trillionaires and a Burning Planet: A Package Deal
August 13, 2022
[Note to BfAZ readers: I’m limited in how much of this I can post, but the paywall at Newsweek isn’t too bad, so you should be able to access it] It’s an awful feeling, watching Senator Joe Manchin saddle congressional Democrats‘ efforts to confront climate change with fossil fuel giveaways, then watching Kyrsten Sinema hold Manchin’s watered-down legislation hostage
Trump Minion Kari Lake Wants to Break Up the F.B.I. and Secede from America
August 13, 2022
Kari Lake is giving interviews….in the alternative reality universe of Newsmax and Louder with Crowder and she is making news by further demonstrating how dangerous it would be if she was to accede to the Arizona Governorship this January. In these interviews, the Trump Republican Gubernatorial Candidate advocates the disbanding of the F.B.I. following its
Arizona Democratic Reaction to the House Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
August 12, 2022
Democrats have done it again in securing legislation through the Inflation Reduction Act, without any Republican support (including the Arizona House GOP delegation,) that will move the country forward, invest in planet-saving green energy technologies, and lift people up. When the history of this legislation is written, Republican lawmakers (including Arizona’s Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs,
California Targets Guns Through Profits, Part 2
August 12, 2022
This is the third article in a series addressing civil tort liability as a potential remedy for outrageous anti-community behavior. To read the previous articles, click here. This year, the governors of Texas and California went to war in a tit-for-tat exchange of legislation bringing the hotly contested political issues of abortion rights and gun
This is What Winning Looks Like
August 12, 2022
This is what winning looks like. ✅ Climate change ✅ Lowering drug costs ✅ Helping Medicare recipients ✅ Economic rescue ✅ Lowest unemployment in 50 years ✅ Infrastructure plan ✅ Gun safety law ✅ China competitiveness bill ✅ First Black woman on the US Supreme Court
Not-So-Random Primary Election Thoughts
August 12, 2022
And the Honor Goes To In this primary season across the US, no other state has nominated more Trump endorsed candidates to the top state-wide offices than – drumroll please – Arizona. Yes, in the past decades, we had right-wing conservatives who institutionalized “the-us-vs-POC” politics of SB 1070, the teachings of Joe Arpaio and redistricting
Changes coming to TUSD Governing Board in 2022
August 12, 2022
Tucson Unified School District Governing Board President Adelita Grijalva is not running for re-election on their School Board after serving 5 terms (20 years). Featured photo is of Adelita, who was elected to the Pima County Board of Supervisors for District 5 in 2020. Also not running for re-election after one term is educator Leila
