The Arizona Unemployment System, as this writer wrote earlier on May 5, 2020, is “broken and needs to be fixed.” Nothing has really changed in the last 22 days. As Laurie Roberts of AZ Central commented in a piece on May 26, 2020: “More than 600,000 Arizonans have applied for unemployment this spring, nearly 25,000 … Read more
Arizona District Legislative Six Senator Sylvia Allen, the chair of the Senate Education Committee, is no stranger to controversial remarks. Over the years she has: Said the Earth is 6000 years old. Openly worried that the nation would look too much like South America (she apologized and said her comments were misconstrued.) Wanted to exclude … Read more
With respect to helping the LGBTQ Community in schools, the idea of Power to the People took on added significance last week in Arizona after several months of pitchfork raising by narrow-minded reactionaries in the state. Last year, reactionary zealots like State Senator Sylvia “Out of the Closet Racist” Allen, State Representative Kelly “Donna Trump” … Read more
You would think that after his Nike debacle over the long July 4th holiday — he now is denying that he ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to rescind a $1 million incentive, “are you going to believe me or your lyin’ eyes?” — that our damn fool Governor Ducey would want to lay low for awhile … Read more
No one in their right mind would ever appoint Senator Sylvia Allen chair of the Senate Education Committee. But then no one believes that Senate President Andy Biggs is in his right mind. He is an ideological extremist, nothing more. For Arizona’s “education leaders” who thought that your settlement of the education funding inflation adjustment … Read more