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.

Gov. Ducey Should Hire an Army of Contact Tracers

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THIS POST IS PART OF A SERIES ON THE NEED TO REBUILD ARIZONA’S PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE. Identifying the infected is step one in getting an epidemic under control. For that, you need a massive and scientifically rigorous testing program, which, according to the Ducey Administration, we now have capacity to do testing on demand. We … Read more

UPDATED 5.14: Governor Ducey Should Prioritize Testing in Congregate Living Facilities

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THIS POST IS PART OF A SERIES ON THE NEED TO REBUILD ARIZONA’S PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE. UPDATE 5.14: Dr. Christ has announced that the state will begin to test all residents/staff of Medicare/Medicaid eligible nursing homes. Better late than never, except for those already dead. Governor Ducey’s Administration has announced that Arizona’s private labs foresee … Read more

GOP Rejects Select Investigative Committee on Coronavirus Crisis

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In a perfectly party-line vote of 212 to 182, the GOP wholly rejected House Resolution 935, to establish a select investigative sub-committee for the Coronavirus Crisis under the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Republicans lost the vote, but they made their desire to obfuscate this Administration’s failure very clear. The Sub-Committee will have the powers … Read more

Is Coronavirus Giving Earth a Long Overdue Breath?

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By Michelle Shaw It’s Earth Day, and we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Nothing will make you contemplate the Earth’s health as quickly as watching her spring back to life as 180,000 of your global citizens have lost their battle to simply breathe and fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s almost … Read more

They Really Are That Evil: Trading Lives For GDP

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I recently wrote an opinion piece in which I speculated that the GOP really didn’t want people to return to work and die, they were just positioning themselves politically to insulate themselves from the inevitable CoronaDepression. I assumed they would make a lot of noise about the damage to the economy, and then prudently, and … Read more