Michael Bryan Blog for Arizona is pleased to announce a new feature for 2012. Because mainstream media do not cover local campaigns except within a narrow window of coverage shortly before a primary or general election, BforAZ will strive to provide our readers with in-depth election coverage throughout the year. With the number and coverage of newspapers … Read more
By Michael Bryan Let's make this simple. The budget crisis proves that the Arizona GOP is unfit to govern. Here's why. Arizona's GOP majority permanently cut taxes (mostly for the wealthy and corporations, and mostly without any minority party support) during a decade-long economic bubble based on the specious premise that the resulting revenue surpluses … Read more
If you haven't seen Channel 5's hard-hitting investigation of allegations of gross abuse of power by Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you have to see it. In it, former New Mexico US Attorney David Iglesias says that based on his review of over two-dozen allegations by Arizona officials and business persons, he would seek an indictment … Read more
by Karl Reiner The lack of oversight tied with deregulation allowed the American financial industry to make a big change in how it operated. Over a short time, it switched from managing the allocation of capital to companies to an industry dedicated to making big commissions by flogging increasingly exotic and complex securities to investors … Read more
This may seem like blasphemy: the House Bill on energy known as The American Clean Energy Act is the most detrimental bill the House has passed since the Patriot Act. Like the Patriot Act, it is not what it says it is. It should never become law. It is not a clean energy bill. … Read more