The zero-sum game of tax cuts to stimulate state economies

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: After the Lost Decade of the Bush years in which massive tax cuts for corporations and the super-wealthy produced the slowest job growth since the Great Depression and eventually collapsed under the weight of the worst recession since the Great Depression, Republican zealots are sticking to their faith based supply-side economics of … Read more

Update to The Bush Years Were a Lost Decade

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Update to a previous post The Bush Years Were a Lost Decade. MeteorBlades at Daily Kos posted More on the Lost Decade, courtesy of Cheney-Bush:  Just about any way you look at it, the country got smacked around from January 2001 to January 2009. Aside from its wretched foreign policy, violations of … Read more

SWAG Update

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again to update candidate filings. The dance card is filling up quickly. You can play along at home at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CommitteeSearch.aspx The Pima County Board of Supervisors appointed Rep. "Don't make me angry" Frank Antenori to the LD 30 Senate seat vacated by the wannabe tin horn dictator of Tucson Sen. … Read more

The Coming Week – Legislative Edition

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Posted by Craig McDermott As usual, all info gathered from the website of the Arizona Legislature, except where noted, and subject to change without notice (and given the activities expected for this week, short-notice changes are likely)… As noted earlier this weekend, a special session (#7!!) is on tap for the week. Look for more … Read more

Fire staffs at “failing schools”?

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by David Safier This has been going on for over a decade, but it's moving to center stage. Poorly performing — often called "failing" — schools sometimes fire all the people who work there. Then members of the old staff can reapply, if they wish, with no guarantee they'll be rehired. There's a story in … Read more