Just one month ago, VA officials were warning that they faced staffing shortages and lack of PPE for safe operations in their veterans’ facilities across the country. As of March 27th, they had confirmed 571 cases of COVID19 among their patients, and 185 among staff. As I write now, one month later on April 28th, … Read more
There are two cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court that represent Republican efforts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare.” Today the U.S. Supreme Court overwhelmingly rejected that Republican effort in the lesser of the two cases, which I believe it is fair to read, in light of tens of thousands of Americans … Read more
Malignant narcissist Donald Trump got all nonplused and angry over the humiliating beatdown he took from all sides in the media for his utterly moronic — and dangerous — suggestion at Thursday’s “Daily Trump Show” that doctors should investigate whether injecting household cleaning supplies like bleach and Lysol into the body could kill the coronavirus … Read more
According to the April 21 edition of Capitol Notes, It appeared last week that the Republican leadership at the State Legislature, Senate President Karen Fann, and House Speaker Russell Bowers, had an agreement for legislators to return to the capitol on May 1 and then quickly adjourn the legislative session Sine Die. Democratic leaders and … Read more
The election to succeed the late progressive icon Richard Elias as the next Supervisor of Pima County District Five features candidates from two local political families. Consuelo Hernandez, the sister of State Legislators Alma and Daniel Hernandez is one of them. Ms. Hernandez, a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Global Health … Read more