Governor Doug Ducey released his budget for the Fiscal Year 2022 yesterday (January 15, 2021.) As Yellow Sheet reports, It contains modest budget increases in: Education Programs like early literacy, school construction, civic education, school transportation, summer school (to help children catch up from the Coronavirus related issues.) Broadband expansion. Criminal Justice reform like monies … Read more
Republican politicians have been enabling Trump since day one of his Presidency. His statements before and during his Presidency have now totaled 29,508 false and misleading claims. (Washington Post and Fact Checker) But for some reason, this hasn’t made a bit of difference to his followers or Republican lawmakers. For any other person running for … Read more
Tucson voters have consistently for many years rejected this idea. Whatever happened to “let the voters decide”? The Courts have repeatedly rejected the Republican-controlled legislature’s attempts to dictate to Tucson when it should hold its local elections, and its city-wide council ward elections, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Whatever happened to “Government … Read more
This post will be updated as the IRC meeting progresses (1:13pm) The Zoom of the initial meeting of the Commission started with a brief party-line deadlock on who the temporary chairperson just for the meeting to elect the permanent chairperson. Then they immediately went into an extended executive session just to take legal advice on … Read more
Almost a decade ago, I did a post on Before redistricting, consider increasing the number of districts. (The graphics in this post have since been lost after we converted to a new blog software). I argued: Before you get upset and spit out your coffee over the mere thought of the idea of adding more … Read more