Pro & Con on RTA Next discussed on AZPM’s The Press Room
January 30, 2026
The Press Room on AZPM hosted by new News Director David Lee held a live audience forum last week, which aired today online about the upcoming March 10, 2026 RTA Next ballot. It is a proposed extension of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) passed in May 2006, for another 20 years to 2046. The original
Ciscomani Votes For Trump’s Brown Shirts
January 29, 2026
Juan Ciscomani voted YES on the House of Representatives bill 7147, which provided appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol and ICE. The bill contains no measures that would restrict the unlawful behavior of agents. He cast his vote with knowledge of atrocities committed by agents: detaining four- and five-year-old children to
In Any Funding Deal Over DHS, the Innocent Need to be Released from America’s Concentration Camps, and Noem, Lewandowski, Miller, and Hohman Have to Go
January 29, 2026
With another Government Shutdown looming over, not health care costs this time, but what to fund ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is negotiating a potential deal to avoid it with the White House. In reporting from the New York Times and MSNOW, the outlines of the deal
Fascism IS Happening Here
January 28, 2026
The hideous ICE murders in Minneapolis of the so-called “domestic terrorists” have become more common — and blatant. I am reminded of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.” The story was about the United States evolving from a representative democracy into a totalitarian autocracy. This concept was considered impossible, even though it was
Arizona Democratic Battleground Congressional Candidates Are Outraged at Pretti Execution
January 27, 2026
Several of Arizona’s leading Congressional Candidates in battleground districts reacted to the horrific and unprovoked ICE-Black Shirt murder/execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday. Arizona Congressional District (CD) Six Candidate JoAnna Mendoza posted: In Arizona CD One, Marlene Galán-Woods wrote: “Enough is enough. Another person has been shot and killed by federal agents in
AZGOP Elects an ‘Anchor Baby’ to Be Their Party Chairman
January 26, 2026
The MAGA movement, which has wholly taken over the Republican Party with Trump as their warlord, detests all immigrants. They are demonstrating that hatred every day on the streets of America. They perjoratively call children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants ‘anchor babies’. They hate the Americanjus soli tradition, inherited from Great Britian
Ward 6 Councilwoman Miranda Schubert says to Vote No on RTA Next Ballot
January 26, 2026
The renewal of the previous 20 year (2006 to 2026) Regional Transportation Plan/RTA is coming up on a March 10 special election ballot in Pima County, for a half cents sales tax increase, called the RTA Next. The RTA original plan widened E. Broadway Blvd., built the Sun Link streetcar (almost 4 miles of track),
Lifelong Educator Julie Stockwell Will Bring Her Love of Public Schools to the Deer Valley School Board
January 26, 2026
Mother, grandmother, and lifelong educator Julie Stockwell bleeds public schools. She also cares deeply about ensuring that schoolchildren are prepared for academic and career success in their K-12 education. That is why she is running again for the Deer Valley School Unified School District Governing Board. Believing “school board members should be champions of the
