Highly suggested reading: Save Our Schools Weekly Education Report, and Civic Engagement Beyond Voting’s AZ Legislature Weekly Report. This week only about 150 active bills have survived, out of the over 1600 dropped this session. March 24th will be the next deadline for bills to move forward: all non-appropriation bills must have cleared committee in … Read more
Native-born Arizonan Analise Ortiz has worked her adult life trying to better the lives of her fellow Grand Canyon State Residents. First as a journalist. Then as an advocate. Now as a candidate for the Arizona State House in the new Legislative District 24 which encompasses far West Phoenix and parts of South Glendale Running on a … Read more
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, the Phoenix City Council moved to enter into a development with the Phoenix Mayo Clinic for: “…Installation of public infrastructure improvements, drainage and dedication of public right-of-way (ROW) or easements, and any other agreements as necessary (Agreements) for a mixed-use project to be located on approximately 228 acres south of … Read more
Providing Paid Family and Medical Leave Permanently removing the state expenditure cap on public school spending. Ensuring corporations pay their fair share in taxes. Making sure there is accountability for all tax expenditures. Sharing more state revenue with Tribal Communities. Helping the poor. Who would be against any of that? Apparently, most Republicans at the … Read more
As Ronald Reagan said several times in his 1980 Presidential Debate with President Jimmy Carter: “There you go again.” That phrase is apt for the recent attempts by the Arizona fringe right currently occupying the State Republican Party (and across the country) to look for any means to suppress or obstruct people’s (specifically, those that … Read more