Kate Gallego began a full four-year term as Phoenix Mayor today (April 19, 2021) after getting inaugurated with other members of the City Council (Yassamin Ansari, Betty Guardado, Ann O’Brien, and Debra Stark) who won elections last November and March (a runoff where Ms. Ansari prevailed.) In her inaugural remarks. Mayor Gallego started by saying … Read more
Citing the need to promote greater mental health and school safety for Arizona students after over a year of being educated mostly through virtual learning at home under the cloud of the Coronavirus, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, along with state legislators and education stakeholders at the State Capitol, announced the release of … Read more
Above: Current water levels on Lake Meade for the 2021 accumulation projections can be seen well from the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge above the Hoover Dam on January 29, 2021, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal). CBS News reports, a Megadrought emerging in western U.S. could be the worst in 1,200 years, study … Read more
If it were not for Tucson native and Arizona Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, the economic expansion during the Clinton/Gore Administration would likely not have happened. Back in 1993, Republicans started their nearly 30-year trend of obstructing virtually every major Democratic Presidential initiative. They were screaming that Clintonomics would destroy the economy. That’s when Arizona Senator … Read more
“Let The People Decide” Arizona International Film Festival <reelfrontier@gmail.com VOTER SUPPRESSION LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE at the ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Online Film: April 17-20 * Online Panel: April 18 “A lot of people aren’t even AWARE of the attack on voting rights that’s going on, and that’s what makes Let The People Decide so important” –Ari Berman, Mother Jones “Essential viewing … Read more