Above: From The Arizona Center for Economic Progress, More Than Two Decades of Underfunding Arizona Public School Facilities Hurts Low-Income and Rural Communities the Most. The Arizona Republic reports: Just days before a school funding trial five years in the making is set to begin, Arizona’s new Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, has asked for … Read more
Ed.: I think everyone here might find this dustup between an anonymous homeowner and his town’s cops as amusing as I did. What follows is the homeowner’s own write-up of the controversy. In Wickenburg, Arizona, a small town of less than 9,000 about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix, a homeowner erected a sign in his yard … Read more
Gov. Doug Ducey and his radical Republican state legislature have been packing the state courts with activist radical Republican judges for years. They expanded the state Supreme Court, over the objection of the Chief Justice. Then they expanded the state appellate courts (at the very same time they decry any suggestion by Democrats at the … Read more
Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs and her transition team announced the selections for her cabinet that will head many of Arizona’s public safety agencies. According to a December 29, 2022 evening press release, these appointees are: “Lt. Colonel Dana Allmond – Department of Veterans’ Services (DVS) Retired Army Lt. Colonel Dana Allmond – a mother, wife, veteran, … Read more
The Judge who presided over Kari Lake’s election contest has denied sanctions against Kari Lake and her legal team, as I predicted in previous posts. (see final paragraphs) The Defendants (Hobbs and the MariCo BoS) were asking for over $700K in legal fees. Those attorney’s fees were not granted, but about $33K in expert witness … Read more