Update: Armed and Dangerous Arizona
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: We told you about the "happiness is a warm gun" bills drafted by Sen. Russell Pearce earlier this year, here Armed and Dangerous Arizona and here Gun Crazy in Arizona. Last Friday, on the anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre no less, the Accidental Governor signed into law Russell Pearce's latest bad idea. Arizona … Read more
A Tucson Coffee Party?
by David Safier It looks like some folks are trying to create a local response to the Tea Partiers. They're calling it the Coffee Party. Here's the political events listing in Sunday's Star: May 11. The Coffee Party of Northwest Tucson will stage a civil demonstration at the office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In … Read more
Top level university course work free online
by David Safier If you have some time on your hands and want to learn more about any college level subject imaginable, you can watch complete class lectures by some of the country's best and most popular profs, for free, thanks to some very generous financial backers. Open course material on the Internet may be … Read more
Conflicting feelings about Chavez charter closings
by David Safier On the one hand, Arizona exercises far too little oversight of its charter schools. The good schools don't need much in the way of oversight, but charters that slight the students through poor educational practices, misuse of funds or both need to be improved or shut down. And by far the worst … Read more
The coming week – legislative edition
Posted by Craig McDermott OK, so I said that last week's lege schedule post would probably be the last free-standing one of the year. I was wrong. 🙂 As usual, all info gathered from the website of the Arizona Legislature, except where noted, and subject to change without notice. For the most part, committees other … Read more
Bus drivers are administrators?
by David Safier I finally got around to watching last week's debate on Prop 100, which aired on KUAT, between Ann-Eve Pederson from the Arizona Education Network and Farrell Quinlan, the Arizona State Director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses. I'm not going to comment on the debate itself except to say Pederson handled … Read more
The nature of the [RINO/Elephant] beast
by David Safier This is too good not to share. It's a Wild Kingdom-style video featuring Tom Horne as a RINO (It's called "The Horne of a RINO." Get it?) and Andrew Thomas as a RINO-toppling elephant. Across the country, Republicans are creating these over-the-top web videos, usually turning their Republican opponents into some kind … Read more
