Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

Former AZ DHS Director Dr. Will Humble on Ducey’s Reversal w/Chris Hayes

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All In with Chris Hayes featured a great interview with former Director of Arizona’s Dept of Health Services, and current Executive Director (and fellow blogger) of the AZ Public Health Association, Dr. Will Humble. It’s definitely worth a listen. Dr. Humble spoke about Ducey’s decision to allow local authorities to mandate, and enforce, the use … Read more

Visiting AZ GOP Chairperson Kelli Ward’s Brain

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AZ GOP Chairperson Kelli Ward does a daily FaceBook Live video chat. I thought that might be interesting, so I dropped in for a chat. You might find it amusing. I guess video embedding has been disabled on her page, because it just comes up blank when I try to do that, so you have … Read more

What Virus? It’s Rodeo Time in Prescott. #WearaMask

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Right around June 29th the Prescott Area will be flooded with rodeo enthusiasts and participants from across the country attending both the rodeo and Frontier Days Parade and celebrations. In addition to the large crowds flocking to the rodeo grounds, often between 30,000 and 40,000 people pack the streets of downtown Prescott for the parade. … Read more

New Blog Features 6/18/20

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If you are the acutely observant sort, you might have noticed a few changes here at BlogForArizona.net. One is we have some new choices on the top menu just below the donkey banner. You can now more easily visit the blog’s FaceBook Page and Twitter stream directly from the top menu. No more looking for bookmarks! … Read more

Tucson City Councilman Kozachik Declares a Legal War with Ducey Over Mandatory Public Masking

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Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik’s Ward 6 office released this earlier today: “Last week I wrote to Governor Ducey, encouraging him to return local decision-making authority to local governing bodies so we can chart our own course through the coronavirus pandemic. He has chosen to ignore that letter. The Ducey administration has also ignored science … Read more