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.

Demcratic National Convention 2008, Thinks Green

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by Pat Canady The Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee, along with representatives from Humana (NYSE: HUM) and Bikes Belong have joined to bring 1,000 bikes to Denver for people to use during the week of the Democratic National Convention. Freewheelin is a national bike-sharing program developed by Humana and and bike industry groups like Bikes … Read more

A Drinking & Smoking Summit

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Some may have seen the guest opinion in today’s Tucson Citizen announcing the Drinking Liberally / Smoking Conservatively Summit this Thursday starting at 6pm at the Shanty on 4th Avenue and 9th Street: Partisanship has acquired a bad name of late. It’s become closely associated with the name-calling, character assassination, fear mongering and actively misleading … Read more

Al Melvin Throws Down in Pima County

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"It’s like Hitler just invaded France," said a source in the moderate wing of the Pima County Republican Party of Joe Higgin’s likely primary challenge of Ann Day for Supervisor in District 1. That’s not just Godwin’s law in effect; my source only meant that a war that everyone knew was coming, and that many … Read more