Rep. Powers Hannley with prison reform advocates

Should Prisoners Be Paid Minimum Wage? (video)

The minimum wage in Arizona is $12 per hour. Arizona prisoners do a variety of jobs from manual labor to answering phones for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), for which they are paid anywhere between 10 cents to $3 per hour. The ADOT Service Arizona call center workers are the highest paid prisoners, but … Read more

Red for Ed: Never Forget

GOP legislators seek to create ballot confusion on education measures

The Arizona GOP is turning to its old bag of tricks again: put competing measures on the ballot to create ballot confusion and hope that exasperated voters will just vote “no” on both measures out of frustration. Howard Fischer reports, Senate panel OKs ballot proposal to hike special sales tax for education funding: State lawmakers … Read more

Governor Ducey appeals ruling against his illegal Prop. 123

Back in October, a Federal Judge ruled Prop. 123 illegal, again. “The ruling has no immediate effect on school funding. It allows the state to continue to draw more than $200 million a year out of the trust to fund education through 2025.” Lawless Republicans never take “No” for an answer. They just keep working … Read more

Team Trump: not a defense, but political theater of the absurd

Wow. Just … Wow. The “defense” presentation by Team Trump has been in no way a legal defense presented by competent legal counsel that one would expect to see from any attorney at an actual trial. Instead, what we have bore witness to over the past couple of days is political theater of the absurd, … Read more