The Arizona Legislative Session ended with hours to spare today. The only winners during these last several weeks of the grueling budget process were: The wealthy received large tax cuts they did not need and possibly greater opportunities to milk the school voucher system. People who enabled the 2020 Election Big Lie and took a … Read more
Between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, the Washington D.C. media villagers engaged in ridiculous reporting about how President Biden’s coupling of the so-called “bipartisan infrastructure agreement” negotiated by the Gang of Ten, which he signed off on, with the much larger budget reconciliation human infrastructure package being hashed out by Democrats alone was a “Biden … Read more
It is bad enough that Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature told pregnant women and poor children to p–s off when it came time to fund expansions to the state-run health care and KidsCare Programs. Even Laurie Roberts, in her June 25, 2021 column for AZ Central noted, the KidsCare expansion provision would have only … Read more
The State Budget process in Arizona has shown several fundamental truths for the former Party of Lincoln. They are: The Big Lie on the 2020 Election is alive and well as evidenced by their enactments of several provisions like putting watermarks on ballots, going after social media sites that tell the truth about Republican officeholders … Read more
Today was potentially a great day for the American People. The Biden/Harris Administration has come to an agreement with a bipartisan group of Senators (including Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema) on the framework for a $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. The other nine Senators that joined President Biden and Senator Sinema outside the White House were Senators Susan … Read more