While Phoenix was experiencing a cold weather front with temperatures coming close to freezing a week ago, parts of Antarctica (the South Pole) had a higher warming trend, approaching 70 degrees in the same period. During this high temperature, an iceberg roughly the size of the city of Atlanta or the small nation of Malta … Read more
Several times during the tax cut debates on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Ben Toma and other Republicans repeated the mantra that Arizona has a “budget surplus”. The only reason that we have funds that have not been allocated is because we have had decades of budget cuts and … Read more
In the week to ten days since Individual One was acquitted by the Coverup Republicans in the Senate, the electoral fortunes of the Democratic candidates seeking to defeat the most vulnerable of them have considerably improved. How can this be? Exhibit A: Has the 2016 Popular Vote Loser shown humility and remorse since his acquittal … Read more
In late January after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the attorneys general of the last three states to ratify the ERA filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that the Trump administration must add the amendment to the U.S. Constitution. State AGs file lawsuit demanding addition of ERA to … Read more
All 12 tax giveaways or revenue reductions heard in the House Ways and Means Committee in the past three weeks passed– many on bipartisan votes. For the record, I was the only person who voted “no” on all of the tax giveaways. To be clear, none of these tax reductions do anything to: increase education … Read more