Gov. Doug Ducey sold voters a bill of goods with his Prop. 123 in 2018, promising to raise teacher pay by 20% by the 2020-2021 school year, to end the Red For Ed teacher walkouts. Just last month, Arizona has the lowest wages for teachers in the nation, report finds: Teacher pay in Arizona can’t … Read more
Our excellent Dem delegation from Legislative District 10 in Tucson sat down with AZDem Environmental Council Co-Chair Nick Arnold for an hour of discussion about many of the pending issues and events in this 55th session of the AZLeg in this Cross-Over week. Since the drop-dead date for bills (other than appropriations and strikers) has … Read more
Above: Editorial: Trump’s ‘beautiful wall’ is a vanity project and nothing more. Democrats should treat it as such: [T]his debate isn’t, and never has been, about the best way to secure the border. It’s about the symbolism of the wall. To Trump, it’s the embodiment of his Fortress America approach to the rest of the … Read more
Last week, the radical Republican white snowflakes in the Arizona legislature waging a culture war against “Critical Race Theory” – something which is only taught in law schools and graduate level college courses – voted to send to the ballot a measure for Republican white snowflake voters to forbid teaching America’s actual history in the Arizona … Read more
This week’s worst person in Arizona is current Arizona Senator, likely hopeless candidate for Secretary of State, and definitely creepy sex pest, Michelle Ugenti-Rita. While explaining her inexplicable vote to pointlessly deprive our children of over a billion dollars in school funding, she called public education supporters (mainly teachers) watching from the gallery “educational terrorists”. Never … Read more