With the unanimous passage of its city budget, Mayor Kate Gallego and the Phoenix City Council have signaled that, after 12 public hearings, they are listening to the people’s concerns about affordability and have built a fiscal plan focused on food assistance, childcare, housing opportunities, and combating extreme heat. Among the budget provisions that achieve … Read more
Lower Costs, Less Chaos, Real Solutions That is the slogan for the new American Promise Agenda released by the New Democrat House Coalition earlier this week. Among the members of this coalition is Arizona House Congressional District Four Representative Greg Stanton. Earlier in the month, another Arizona Representative, Yassamin Ansari, participated in the unveiling of … Read more
A United States Supreme Court decision gutting section two of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Arizona Republican Legislative and County Leaders looking to eliminate mail-in voting, redraw congressional districts to make the Grand Canyon state an apartheid one, and make the voting experience uncomfortable for people with disabilities. Trump’s “Justice” Department wanting access to Arizona … Read more
It is amazing what an audit can uncover. In another bombshell report by 12 News journalist Craig Harris, the billion-dollar-a-year Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) private school voucher welfare/scam for the wealthy and huckster class program, has been found by the Auditor General to have major issues of non-compliance in how management at the Arizona … Read more
With Arizona Democratic House Leader Oscar De Los Santos telling audience members that state Republican Legislators, like Representative and Secretary of State candidate Alex Kolodin, like his MAGA master Donald Trump, want to put a bullet in the head of mail-in voting (except on those occasions when they need to use it), other leading Grand … Read more