The $600-a-week federal supplement to unemployment benefits enacted under the CARES Act is scheduled to expire after July 31, barring an extension from Congress, which seems unlikely given Republican opposition. (States can only pay this enhanced benefit through the week ending on July 25 or July 26.) For many Americans who lost their job during … Read more
On July 12, 2020, Joe Biden is currently in an enviable position in most national and battleground Presidential polls. According to recent polling by the people at the Cook Report, he is leading by wider margins than Hillary Clinton ever did in 2016 and has commanding strength in states that went to Trump after going … Read more
Apparently, Jay Lawrence is not the only Republican Legislator that likes the fringe conspiracy enthusiast group OAnon. Vince Leach does as well. AZ Mirror Journalist Jeremy Duda first reported that the Legislative District 11 State Senator posted a Ben Garrison editorial cartoon of Donald Trump, Michael Flynn, and QAnon imitating the three men from Willards … Read more
As noted previously on this blog, Arizona stands of the precipice of a humanitarian crisis. Arguably, a historical tragedy is already baked in, and it’s only a matter of time before it unfolds like a cinematic nightmare in hospitals around our state. Ducey’s idea of leadership in the midst of what is now the worst … Read more
At Governor Doug Ducey’s press briefing today, we had a State Chief Executive that clearly knew Arizona had rising COVID 19 cases, hospitalizations, and fatalities. He knows that hospital capacity is starting to burst at the seams and there is a greater need for additional testing and contact tracing. He, contrary to the perceptions of … Read more