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.

Arizona’s Deficient Bridges

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As the nation watches in stunned amazement as dead Americans are pulled from beneath the rubble of a major bridge on an interstate highway in a major metro area, we have to wonder: what are this nation’s priorities? Are we to become a third-world nation with a decaying, failing infrastructure and a tin-pot dictator at … Read more

Diana Rhoades: A Thousand Trees, Please!

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Diana Rhoades is a Director of the Board of the Downtown Alliance and is passionate about creating living, vibrant street-scapes in Tucson that we can be proud of. She is currently running Regina Romero’s City Council campaign. She is advocating a project to beautify downtown through the planting of 1000 trees that will use passive … Read more

Paul Eckerstrom’s Legacy of Election Integrity

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Paul Eckerstrom and I had a great conversation after a recent Drinking Liberally session about his role in the Election Integrity movement and getting the audit legislation passed. If you want to learn how grassroots politics works at its best, I encourage you to take the time to listen in. Download eckerstrom.wav Paul (on the … Read more

Harry’s Wealth Tax Breaks… for the Middle Class?

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I had a conversation (if me yelling a lot can be called a conversation) with Seth Scott, Representative Harry Mitchell’s Press Secretary about Harry’s co-sponsorship of a tax cut plan to keep Capital Gains taxes at their current Bush-mandated rate, and to decrease estate taxes by increasing the exemption to 3.75 million and graduating the … Read more