Making life affordable for Arizonans again, along with quality and accessible health care. That was the purpose of Arizona Legislative District 21 Representative Consuelo Hernandez’s bill (HB2958), which passed the House Health and Human Services Committee on February 9. If it passes the whole State Legislature and is signed by Governor Katie Hobbs, this measure … Read more
Spokespersons for the new citizen’s intitiative (David has a great rundown of the outline, so I won’t repeat) say It’s time to bring accountability, transparency, and safety standards to Arizona’s billion-dollar ESA voucher program, protect the vast majority of our kids’ educational opportunities, and give Arizona taxpayers the accountability and transparency we deserve. Damned right … Read more
A graph is worth a thousand words. 2025 saw a profound spike in the number of reported measles cases in Arizona, to well over 200. Consider that from 1992 to 2024, the number of reported cases per year never came close to 50. Unfortunately, the recent measles outbreak, caused in large part by the vaccine … Read more
With Arizona Legislative Republicans okay with rampant waste, fraud, abuse, and indoctrination in the billion-dollar a year publicly funded with working and middle class taxpayers money Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) Welfare/Scam for the Wealthy Private School Voucher Program, the Arizona Education Association (AEA) and Save Our Schools Arizona have banded together to gather enough signatures … Read more
BlogForArizona has a very active presence on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/blogforarizona.bsky.social). We DO push notices of our new posts there, in case that’s your perferred method of notice (rather than email delivery, or loading up the blog on a browser), and to help new folks discover our blog and our posts, but that is FAR from all; … Read more