The Republican candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction (Shiry Sapir, Michelle Udall, and Tom Horne) held a “debate” last week moderated by PBS’s Ted Simons. During the course of the event, all three attempted to be the educational equivalent of Palpatine from the Star Wars movies: candidates that offered a reassuring audience that their intentions … Read more
Above: Lake Powell. The Arizona legislature really only had two priorities to deal with in this legislative session: (1) the school funding cliff that they created last session, and (2) the looming water crisis Arizona faces from a prolonged megadrought due to climate change. The legislature made a band-aid deal to fix the school funding … Read more
Combatting Climate Change. Protecting Voting and Human Rights. Fully Funding Public Education. Those are the issues Arizona State Senate Candidate Priya Sundareshan is running on in the new Legislative District (LD) 18. A Tucson native and graduate of both M.I.T. (chemical engineering) and the University of Arizona (Juris Doctor and Master’s in Natural Resource Economics,) … Read more
The new Arizona Legislative District 13 is one that encompasses much of the old LD 17. A purple district, it provides Democrats with an opportunity to expand their influence in the Arizona State Senate with the possibility of gaining the majority in that chamber. One of the Democrats looking to run for the new state … Read more
Instead of dealing with the State’s pressing issues like fully funding education, helping children enroll in KidsCare, and fully addressing the looming water shortage catastrophe, most Republicans at the Arizona State Legislature want leave the capitol by passing a skinny budget (a continuation of last years fiscal plan adjusted for inflation,) along with as many … Read more