Dion Johnson may be the George Floyd of Arizona. Mr. Johnson was shot by a Department of Public Safety Trooper on the 101 and Tatum Freeway. The trooper reported that a struggle ensued with Mr. Johnson after he was woken up in his car (the deceased had apparently pulled to the side of the freeway … Read more
Javier Soto wants to “give Blue Collar working families in LD3 and Southern Arizona a strong voice at our State Capitol” as one of the next State House Representatives from Legislative District (LD) Three. The district, a reliably Democratic-leaning area in Tucson, will send two Democrats back to the State House in 2021. Mr. Soto … Read more
Speaking to the American People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this morning (June 2, 2020,) former Vice President Joe Biden, saying words that reminded students of Modern United States History of the legacies of past Democratic Presidential Administrations from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Barack Obama, called for Americans to unite against the forces of racism, hate, and … Read more
I actually wrote much of this post back on 3/21/20 and decided that posting it would be far too speculative and pre-mature. However, events now seem to have caught up with my concerns to an alarming degree, so I decided I would publish an annotated version of my earlier unpublished writing. Those portions that are … Read more
The journal ProPublica has revealed that the Navajo Nation, along with other tribal communities, has received, at inflated prices, one million respirator masks that did not meet Food and Drug Administration guidelines. The transaction is increasingly questionable because the company that sold the inferior respirator masks is owned by Zach Fuentes, a former Deputy Chief … Read more