The disinformation phenomenon with members of the former Party of Lincoln that has exploded over the last four years did not start with Donald’s windmills cause cancer and let’s have patriotic education, Trump. He, using the bully pulpit of the highest office of the land, just amplified the alternative facts the fringe right has been … Read more
It is bad enough that Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature told pregnant women and poor children to p–s off when it came time to fund expansions to the state-run health care and KidsCare Programs. Even Laurie Roberts, in her June 25, 2021 column for AZ Central noted, the KidsCare expansion provision would have only … Read more
The State Budget process in Arizona has shown several fundamental truths for the former Party of Lincoln. They are: The Big Lie on the 2020 Election is alive and well as evidenced by their enactments of several provisions like putting watermarks on ballots, going after social media sites that tell the truth about Republican officeholders … Read more
This has been a good week for the people of Tucson. First, Governor Doug Ducey and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality have announced the allocation of two million dollars toward accelerating the cleanup and reopening of the Tucson Airport Remediation Plant (TARP.) It is the second allotment from the state designed to help the … Read more
Fellow blogger and mentor Larry Bodine may be right when he said, after learning the depressing details of the budget the Arizona Senate Republicans passed this morning, “we’re doomed.” We definitely will be if we do not stay engaged and fight back. Political polarization and fringe tribalism in Arizona has come to a point where: … Read more