How would you feel if MAGA Republican Legislators somehow secured legislation to allow Trump’s ICE-Gestapo goons to patrol polling locations outside voting rooms on election day? Well, last week, these same MAGA Republican Legislators in the State Senate attempted, despite a legion of protestors at the Capitol, including those allowed in the building, conveying their … Read more
Andrew Sheesley (financial analyst and active Democrat) and Michael Bryan (BlogForArizona.net’s founder and executive editor) are now doing a podcast together as Insight Arizona. We have a mission of bringing some additional insights and conversations to Arizona’s public policy landscape with our podcast, and one of the things we are trying out is the two … Read more
Chalk up another victory for the agents of modern innovation and clean energy sustainability in the Metro Phoenix area. Last week, 12 electric public passenger buses, thanks in part to funding from the Biden/Harris Era Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, debuted on the streets of Phoenix, marking the continuation of Mayor Kate Gallego and the Phoenix City … Read more
Something smells funny, and AZ Senator Javan Daniel Mesnard (J.D. for short) wants to fine abusers of his nose $750. Could it be a fart? Maybe a flaming bag of dog poop on his front porch? Somebody, somewhere near Mesnard’s house on Homestead Court in Chandler, is smoking weed! It’s so odiferous, says the Republican … Read more
How do we get the news here in Southern Arizona? There’s the print (and online) AZ Daily Star, and the alternative Tucson Weekly (Thursdays in print, also online). When we first arrived in Tucson back in 1987, there was also the afternoon paper, The Tucson Citizen, which ceased publication in print in 2009, online in … Read more