The Arizona Unemployment System, as this writer wrote earlier on May 5, 2020, is “broken and needs to be fixed.” Nothing has really changed in the last 22 days. As Laurie Roberts of AZ Central commented in a piece on May 26, 2020: “More than 600,000 Arizonans have applied for unemployment this spring, nearly 25,000 … Read more
Michael Bryan has addressed in earlier posts the misguided emphasis by the Chamber of Commerce and their Republican allies to give businesses what will essentially result in immunity from legal liability for their actions, or inaction, in protecting their employees or their customers from the spread of the coronavirus. Just the opposite emphasis should apply. … Read more
To wear a mask or not wear a mask should not even be a question in Joe Biden or anyone else who does not live on Fox Island or the Trump Zone, minds. On the Biden campaigns Facebook Page, they changed the former Vice President’s side photo to one with him wearing a mask: They … Read more
Donald Trump has been perpetuating a tale, like Old Mother Hubbard “the cupboard was bare” when he became president, and despite having three years to restock the cupboard (which was not bare, as we learn), “it’s all Obama’s fault” that he was so unprepared to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Because “I don’t take responsibility at all,” … Read more
The economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic has meant our state ad local governments have taken a major economic hit to their budgets through reduced sales tax revenues, which Arizona too heavily relies upon. In April, it was estimated that Arizona faces an estimated $1.1 billion budget shortfall in the coming year economic hit due … Read more