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
Did you know that Monday, June 21 was designated Child Tax Credit Awareness Day by the White House? Not if you rely on our local news media here in Arizona. Apparently they don’t care if you get the money to which you are entitled if you are raising children. So here is a public service … Read more
In an event sponsored by the Business Forward Foundation, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego touted the clean energy benefits of the Biden/Harris American Jobs Plan for the Nation and People. Stating that President Biden will no longer let the United States stand still while “other countries lept all over us,” in … Read more