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.

Update: The Pandemic Coup

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UPDATE to Post of 6/2/20: My Darkest Concern: The Pandemic Coup. Well, that didn’t take too long. Essentially only a few days from my finally having published my concerned musing. The crisis did not exactly come the way I had imagined, but it did come. Trump essentially tried an extra-constitutional use of the military against … Read more

Tucson Medical Center’s COVID Unit Nurse in Conversation with BlogForArizona.net

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I had the pleasure of speaking with nurse Kathryn Teyechea of Tucson Medical Center, who for 11 weeks during the peak of the initial outbreak in Tucson, Arizona managed the nursing team at that hospital’s COVID-19 Unit.

We had a half-hour (or so) long conversation via Zoom, which is embedded here below, that you can watch on YouTube at the BlogForArizona.net Channel (which is brand-new and still in development, so try not to judge…). If you like, please Subscribe and Like, so you can help others discover us, too.

For Cara Christ’s Sake Covid Spikes Again!

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Yesterday’s update by AZDHS head honcho, Dr. Cara (no relation to Jesus) Christ was some of the coldest bedside manner I’ve ever seen come from a doctor. All the while Governor Ducey did his best to assure the rest of us to stay calm because if/when we do get the COVID the hospitals in the state still have plenty of room.

Dr. Cara Christ Should Resign and Ducey Doesn’t Work for You

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Governor Ducey continued his campaign to do absolutely nothing about the growing COVID-19 epidemic in Arizona at his Thursday, June 11th presser. Dr. Cara Christ sat next to him and backed his lack of any plan to the hilt. I watched in fascinated horror as Ducey admitted that the epidemic was growing in Arizona (start … Read more