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
Here we go again. Fringe reactionaries in the Arizona State Legislature have in essence, as Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman stated, codified state-sanctioned bigotry and scientific-medical ignorance by formalizing, through the passage of the Nancy Barto sponsored SB1456, the option for parents to not enroll or withdraw their children from sex education classes that … Read more
The Arizona Supreme Court today struck down the Legislature’s most recent attempt to tell Tucson – and, other charter cities – how and when to conduct their local elections. Tucson has set its next City Council elections for this “off-cycle” year of 2021, and now will not be forced to change it to coincide with … Read more