Michael Bryan 
I feel much dumber and less informed for having watched the complete shit show that was the first Presidential debate. The entire program was simply Trump telling outrageous and obvious lies and Biden trying vainly to stem the sewage flow coming from Trump’s smirking maw. CNN’s decision not to fact-check Trump (and Biden) during the … Read more
This article was first published in the Daily Star. Matthew Capalby is a Democratic Precinct Committee Person in LD20 in Tucson. I’m concerned about Mike Jette’s candidacy for County Attorney. His switch to the Democratic Party appears to be just a practicality, but his conservative background says otherwise. We have been witnessing an effort to … Read more
Laura Conover is the Pima County Attorney, seeking election to her second term. This was originally published in the Tucson Sentinel. I read Barbara LaWall’s recent “unhinged” opinion piece with amusement and will respond briefly: When I was a candidate four years ago, we will all recall that her chief deputy filed the first-ever bar complaint against … Read more
Full disclosure: I organized this event as the Program Director of TheDGT.org in conjunction with the good folks at Tucson Agenda. -Ed. MDB I was thrilled to see Tucson Agenda’s write-up of the program in great detail. This is exactly why we need real journalists, like Curt and Cait, covering local matters full-time. You should … Read more
It is, unfortunately, noteworthy when our SCOTUS doesn’t do something truly awful when handing down opinions, or cynically manipulating the law with the “Shadow Docket”. We got a few opinions today and not all of them were terrible. Two of them I find notable and illustrative of the abuse of discretion contained in Robert’s new … Read more