Local Government

Governor Katie Hobbs Helps Create “the Jobs for Tomorrow” with an Aerospace & Defense-Focused Workforce Accelerator

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On this fifth occasion in her Governorship, Arizona Chief Executive Katie Hobbs helped announce the latest “jobs for tomorrow” initiative, propelling the Grand Canyon’s state to become a beacon for a futuristic regional and national technological workforce Mecca: A Future48 Workforce Accelerator with an Aerospace and Defense focus centralized at the Maricopa County Community College’s … Read more

Nauseating: Arizona Legislative Republicans Vote Against Disabled Children While Protecting Welfare for the Wealthy

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Almost three weeks after Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee signaled that they were willing to throw funding ($122 million) to assist disabled children and their caregivers under the fiscal bus, they did just that, voting to deny supplemental funding, sponsored by State Representative Nancy Gutierrez to help these vulnerable Arizonans overlooking the fact that … Read more

Trump Administration Moves to Mothball Division Entrusted with Cybersecurity of American Elections

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Wonder why they would want to do this? On February 10, The Musk/Trump/Vance Administration have put the 17 staffers at the National Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) entrusted with ensuring election security on leave. On February 14, with virtually no notice, they fired another 130 members of the division on its weekend purge of … Read more

Battle Tested JoAnna Mendoza Answers the Call to Serve and Help Achieve the American Dream and Save Democracy for Arizonans in AZ CD Six

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Retired Marine Drill Instructor JoAnna Mendoza is ready not just talk-the-talk but walk-the-walk in her mission to become the next United States Representative from Arizona’s House Sixth Congressional District. If elected, Mendoza will be the first Hispanic-American woman to represent Arizona in Congress and the first female Marine to ever serve in Congress.  A twenty-year … Read more

Just Because Arizonans Voted to Protect Reproductive Freedom Does Not Mean MAGA Republicans Are Going to Stop Trying to Take it Away

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The way Republicans played the voucher game was a first clue here. When Arizonans overwhelmingly rejected the Republican desire to expand private school voucher-Empowerment Scholarship Accounts at the ballot box in 2018, the Doug Ducey Administration and their Anti-Public School Republican allies in the State Legislature went around the will of the people and passed … Read more