David Safier

AZ Charter school advocates, take note

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by David Safier I consider myself an advocate of charter schools, but not the way they're set up here in Arizona, where it's too easy to get a charter and slip by without any accountability, and too rare for bad charters to be shut down. So I'm pleased to see there is a national movement … Read more

Continuing trouble in paradise

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by David Safier Last night I posted a portion of an article from the Arizona Guardian about the Accidental Gov (I got the term from a commenter and plan to make it my own) criticizing the Republican legislators for not knowing the effects of the budget cuts they voted for. Today there's more from the … Read more

Cutman unmasked

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by David Safier Lest we forget, Cutman's alter ego, Rep. Russell Pearce, has been around for awhile. The Southern Poverty Law Center just came out with an Intelligence Report — Hate in the Mainstream: Arizona Reelects Hard-Core Nativist Politician. I'm copying it here in full. I take no responsibility for any exaggerations and inaccuracies that … Read more

Trouble in paradise?

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by David Safier A shocker in an Arizona Guardian email blast: Brewer criticizes GOP lawmakers BREAKING NEWS - Gov. Jan Brewer says her Republican colleagues at the Legislature should have known better when they pushed through deep budget cuts earlier this month that caused widespread job loss, crippled state health services and whacked popular education programs.Brewer on … Read more

Let’s see how this pans out

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by David Safier In the ASU Web Devil:Legislators hold forum for budget-cut discourse. More than 200 people attended a public forum on the state budget held by Democratic members of the state Legislature on Monday evening in the Tempe campus Memorial Union. For some reason, LD-26 Republican Rep. Vic Williams was there as well. What … Read more