Vince Rabago to formally announce for Attorney General on Wednesday

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: From the Vince Rabago for Attorney General campaign: Vince Rabago to Announce Plans for 2010 Attorney General’s Race at Wednesday Press Conferences in Phoenix and Tucson What:   Press conference at which former Assistant Attorney General Vince Rabago will announce his plans for the 2010 Attorney General’s Race  When:     Wednesday, January … Read more

Live Blogging Senate Judiciary

Posted by Craig McDermott 3:34 – This post is getting to be too long, so I am ending this here out of respect of BfA readers and the other writers.  It will be continued on my blog Random Musings, with a summary to be posted here later. 3:33 – GI claims to be neutral on … Read more

Correlation between poverty, low school achievement

by David Safier No one should be surprised to hear that schools with more low income students also tend to have low test scores. But it's still amazing to see how clearly the Arizona stats make that correlation. A reader sent me an excel spreadsheet of data he compiled from 3 public sources on the … Read more

CD 3 Congressional race heating up

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Congressman John Shadegg's retirement has the wannabe Congress critters crawling out of the woodwork. Already Rep. Sam Crump, who had been exploring a run for Attorney General, and Sen. James Waring, who had been exploring a run for State Treasurer, have announced they will run for Congress. On Monday, Sen. Pamela Gorman … Read more

Scarpinato proves my point

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In the SWAG Update I posted that Sen. Jonathan Paton's pre-arranged roll-out in the Arizona Daily Star makes me question whether the Star reports the news, or is acting as the media arm of the Paton campaign as it did when Paton ran for state representative in 2006 while serving in Iraq, … Read more