Both Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego posted New Year messages to their constituents over this last weekend. Both Mayors, recognizing the challenges of the last two years with the Coronavirus, relayed an optimistic message, calling for unity, community, and togetherness in 2022. Mayor Romero posted in both English and Spanish. I … Read more
Will Humble, the Director of Arizona Public Health Association and former Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, has some statistics on the Governor Doug Ducey administration’s criminally negligent mismanagement of the Coronavirus pandemic:
While many voters will be paying to Gubernatorial, State, Congressional and Legislative electoral contests in 2022, there is another set of non-partisan races that could determine how children are educated and protected in schools in Arizona and across the country. These are the races for school board seats on district governing boards. Designed to be … Read more
The Arizona Attorney General’s number one job is to be the advocate for all Arizonans. In some sense, when he was elected, he was retained by the taxpayers to do the job of keeping us safe. In fact, I’m pretty sure suing his own client isn’t in his job description. Rather, like so many of … Read more
Voters across the country have enacted Independent Redistricting Commissions as a good government reform to take partisan gerrymandering (in which politicians select their own voters to create “safe” districts) out of the redistricting process, hoping that a nonpartisan commission would produce competitive districts so that voting actually matters. It was a good concept, but it hasn’t … Read more