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.

A Tucson and Phoenix Municipal Election Yawn

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Snoozers. That is the consensus regarding the municipal election this year. There is really very little learn from these races other than how deeply voters seem not to give a crap. Here in Tucson we rang up a whoppingly pathetic, though not unprecedented, 26% turnout. Sad. But the Phoenix run-offs generated a mind-bogglingly low 22% … Read more

Arpaio’s Fiscal Irresponsibility

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Link: Sheriff Arpaio is more than $1 mil over OT budget. Sheriff Joe "Most Spend-Thrifty Sheriff in America" Arpaio is about $1.3 million dollars over-budget for officer over time for the year – just 4 months into the fiscal year! He’s on track to be more than $6.8 million dollars over-budget just for over time … Read more

Wilenchik’s New Times Grand Jury: a Networked Journalism Project

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UPDATE: I’ve now made the materials released thus far by Judge Baca in the New Times affair available online to anyone who is interested in viewing them: GJDocuments1.pdf GJDocuments2.pdf GJDocuments3.pdf GJDocuments4.pdf GJDocuments5.pdf GJDocuments6.pdf GJDocuments7.pdf GJDocuments8.pdf GJDocuments9.pdf BacaTranscripts.pdf A preliminary review of the documents reveals that Judge Baca released all documents related to the legal tussle … Read more