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.

An Immoral Budget

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By Michael Bryan There are bad budgets. There are harmful budgets. There are short-sighted budgets. There are unbalanced budgets. This year's Arizona state budget is all those things, and more. Arizona's proposed 2011 budget is actually immoral. State governments have a few core responsibilities: elementary and higher education, healthcare, and protecting the least affluent and … Read more

Face This!

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By Michael Bryan Well, that was hardly as trivial an undertaking as I expected, but I think we finally got the BfAZ FB Page working. Try it out on the sidebar to the left and at the address www.facebook.com/BlogForArizona. Thanks for all your feedback and suggestions while we got this thing up and humming. After this … Read more

Eckerstrom on Starting Our State: Baja Arizona

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By Michael Bryan Exclusive to BlogForArizona, here's Paul Eckerstrom, former Chair of the Pima and (briefly) Arizona Democratic Parties, advocating for the 51st State: Baja Arizona. Paul spoke to fellow Bajaians at Drinking Liberally in Tucson. Learn more about the movement or join up at the Website or Facebook Page. 

Flying Our Freak Flag

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By Michael Bryan You might note that we have made a slight alteration to the site banner. We are now acknowledging the de facto split between Baja and Alto Arizona. Of course, the split is not yet de jure, and may never be, but we thought it time to recognize that Baja and Alto are … Read more

BfAZ’s New Social Graces

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By Michael Bryan The crew here at BfAZ are getting more involved in using social media to reach out to our readers and especially to find new ones. See the new doohicky on the left sidebar? Touch it. Really. Go ahead. I'll wait… Tell your networks about us, and you can read more about the … Read more