by David Safier It almost looks like Lisa Graham Keegan and I agree. Almost. She has an op ed in the Republic praising the paper for its discussions of the problems with tuition tax credits. I am extremely grateful to editorial writer Doug MacEachern and The Arizona Republic for clearly defining in 2009 the intended … Read more
by David Safier Imagine my surprise as I was reading through NY Times' 9th Annual Year in Ideas in its Sunday Magazine, when I came across the item, Forensic Polling Analysis. It's about uber-statistician Nate Silver's analysis of polling data from Strategic Vision LLC, in which he comes to the conclusion that the company makes … Read more
by David Safier Two posts below praise the Republic (highly) and the Star (tentatively) for what they've written about tuition tax credits the past few days. But the East Valley Trib's editorial got it as wrong as the other 2 papers got it right. I understand there's a the wall between the reporting and editorial … Read more
by David Safier My post below gives the Star some credit for writing a good editorial this morning on the recommendations of the R-dominated House committee on tuition tax credits. However, the editorial pales in comparison to the coverage in the Sunday Republic: 1 article, 5 separate opinion pieces and a graph. Congrats again to … Read more
by David Safier The Star has a good editorial this morning blasting the recommendations the R-majority committee on tuition tax credits put together. I've complained mightily for weeks (months?) about the Star's lackluster-to-absent coverage of the topic. Let's hope this is the paper's first installment on tuition tax credit and STO abuse, not the final … Read more