Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Daily Star today in an editorial opinion came out strongly for passage of the health care reform bill. Health-care bill must be passed now, not in 5 years. Well, gee thanks guys. You are a little late to the party. Where was this over the past year when it really … Read more
by David Safier I didn't say it, but J. Davidson did in a comment about Ladner's Zany, Zen-y Emails, referring to the text of one of Ladner's emails in response to my "Are teachers bureaucrats too?" question. "All baseballs are balls, but not all balls are baseballs." Dude. Ladner gets paid $141,000 a year for … Read more
Posted by Craig McDermott I and others will do a more complete analysis of the bills that the lege is pushing as its budget "solution", but here is a brief bit on each, mostly from the factsheets prepared by legislative staff. I'm using the House bills here, but the Senate has an identical version of … Read more
by David Safier BruceJ, a reader, chimes in about Ladner's "all government employees except teachers are bureaucrats" line: If he literally believes that everyone who works for the government is a bureaucrat, he should have no trouble telling a buncha Navy SEALS that they're 'just bureaucrats'.
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute maintains Arizona's private schools have a 3-to-1 teacher to non-teacher ratio. Reader Parent X wonders how G.I. arrived at that figure: The private schools in this state don't have to release any kind of information like that, and I'd be absolutely shocked if there is any comprehensive employee list … Read more