by David Safier It seems our Cap'n Al put his fellow Republicans in a bit of a jam the other day. They were forced to vote for a bill they wanted to change, but Al put it up for a vote without consulting them. (Information is from Arizona Capitol Reports, a subscription only service.) The … Read more
by David Safier Today, Clint Bolick weighed in on education funding, poaching on Matthew Ladner's territory. And though the style is different, the malady remains the same. Bolick's opening argument is that we're spending a lower percentage in the classroom now than we did in 2000. He ends by concluding, that means we should cut … Read more
by David Safier Russell Pearce and his cronies hate children. It's no big deal for them to cut education to the bone and eliminate KidsCare. But their animus increases when the children have brown skin. To further their extreme right wing agenda, they're willing to sacrifice those children's chances to get an education and potentially … Read more
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute hasn't changed its answer to my "Are you really saying bus drivers are bureaucrats?" question. So G.I. is still holding to Ladner's laughable statement that there is "an almost 1-to-1 teacher to bureaucrat ratio" in our school districts. That can only be true if bus drivers, maintenance workers and … Read more
by David Safier Here are a few bits and pieces about recent handlings mishandling of the news by local and state newspapers. Brewer screwed up and appointed people to the new Rio Nuevo board who are supposed to be Tucson residents, but aren't. Here's the opening line of Rob O'Dell's article: "At least two of … Read more