Rewind to the fall and winter of 1995 and early 1996. Republicans in Congress, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, thought they had the upper hand in budget negotiations with President Bill Clinton. After all, the Republicans recaptured the House after 40 years of leadership exile from that chamber, and … Read more
President Joe Biden used the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Normandy to liberate Western Europe from Nazi and Fascist totalitarianism to salute the many brave (including several that attended the ceremony today) and fallen soldiers that, through their heroism on the battlefield, helped usher in a new age of Democracy, social justice, … Read more
Here we go again. For the third year in a row, MAGA Republican Legislators at the Arizona State Capitol, the individuals who have mostly not met a private school ESA voucher expenses they did not approve of, appear to be dragging their feet on fixing the Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL,) the mechanism that, if not … Read more
I wonder if anyone else has noticed how petulant and oppositional-defiant the MAGA crew running the Arizona Legislature are behaving? Given control of the public purse they’ve run the state into an almost $2 billion deficit in just one year with unpopular and out-of-control voucher scheme for the wealthiest in Arizona. Now they are demanding … Read more
Over the last few days, the organization Save Our Schools (SOS) Arizona has launched a state budget education campaign blasting the Empowerment Scholarship Private School Voucher Program (ESA)and the Ducey-approved Flat Tax for blowing a hole (about $1.8 billion) in the fiscal budget, making the Grand Canyon State the financial equivalent of Kansas from the … Read more