The newly appointed chief of staff for Arizona Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs, Allie Bones, and Transition Co-Chairs Monica Villalobos and Mike Haener held a Pre-Thanksgiving Presser with journalists on November 23, 2022, to discuss a range of topics from the inauguration, the budget process, and the continuing election denialism of Trump Republicans. The Governor-Elect had announced … Read more
It has been one year since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In that time, the county and the state of Arizona have started to achieve tremendous benefits that will help make the lives of all Americans better. For example, according to a Biden/Harris Administration released fact sheet, the country has seen: Launched 2,800 … Read more
The U.S. hit post-pandemic “peak inflation” in June 2022, and the rate of inflation has been steadily coming down on the backend of the inflation peak. If this steady decline continues at the present rate, by this time next year the rate of inflation will have declined close to the FED’s target rate of inflation … Read more
If you were to believe the fear mongering ads from Republicans and their affiliated dark money PACs, you would think that the U.S. economy is in a Great Depression with masses of unemployed and long bread lines. The exact opposite is true. Jeff Cox reports for NBC, U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October, better … Read more
LA Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik makes the same point I have been harping on: Republicans keep harping on inflation, but don’t have any answers for it: Even if you didn’t know from your household accounts that inflation has been running hot this year, your local Republican officeholders and candidates would make sure it wasn’t … Read more