Top level university course work free online
April 19, 2010
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
Conflicting feelings about Chavez charter closings
April 19, 2010
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
The coming week – legislative edition
April 18, 2010
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
Bus drivers are administrators?
April 18, 2010
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
The nature of the [RINO/Elephant] beast
April 18, 2010
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
May Special Election: Early Voting Begins This Thursday
April 18, 2010
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Courtesy of F. Ann Rodriguez, Pima County Recorder: Election Day: May 18, 2010 SPECIAL STATE-WIDE ELECTIONandTown of Oro Valley Election Early Voting Sites will be located at:Oro Valley Town Hall (Oro Valley Voters ONLY)11000 N. La Cañada Drive – Oro Valley, AZ 85737 – 520-299-4700 Pima County Recorder’s Office
Russell Pearce, “Legislator of the year”
April 18, 2010
by David Safier Here it is: [S]tate Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, was on stage accepting the Legislator of the Year award from the pro-free-market group Americans for Prosperity. Here's the context of that line, which makes things a bit more complex: The tea party gathering Thursday at Tempe Diablo Stadium showed the wide range of
About that “poll of Tea Partiers”
April 18, 2010
by David Safier I've been hearing the stats from this week's NY Times/CBS News poll about the demographics and attitudes of Tea Partiers. At least, that's how I've interpreted the results — as a polling of people active in the Tea Party movement. Wrong. The stats are from a phone poll where people were asked
