Arizona is becoming bluer with each successive electoral cycle over the last four years. Legislative District (LD) 17, an area that contains parts of Gilbert, Chandler and Sun Lakes, is a prime example of that trend. In 2018, Democrat Jennifer Pawlik received the most votes of the State House Candidates running in LD 17 and … Read more
One of the many disastrous effects resulting from the closure of all Arizona schools and libraries from the Coronavirus was that children who were impoverished or lived in rural and more remote areas of the state could no longer secure access to high-speed Internet and computer usage. According to reporting by AZ Central, approximately 100,000 … Read more
On April 9, 2020, it was reported that the Arizona Treasury, due to the probable sharp reduction in tax receipts because of the Coronavirus, maybe as much as one billion dollars in the red. According to reporting from AZ Central and Yellow Sheet, this shortfall (which may be considerably less than the worst-case scenario,) would … Read more
Governor Doug Ducey and Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman rightly closed all Arizona schools for the remainder of the 2019/2020 school year because of the Coronavirus. A legitimate worry has surfaced with how students (especially English as a Second Language and Special Education Children) will make up for the lost learning time for the … Read more
Students of American Political History know the name of Eugene Debs. He was the Bernie Sanders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Senator Sanders is a fan of his. A charismatic orator, union activist and socialist (of the Democratic Socialist vintage-like Sanders,) he ran for President five times. He amassed close to one … Read more