UPDATE: TikTok goes down. TikTok comes back up. All in less than 24 hours. Convenient how creating the problem lets you swoop in to save the day, isn’t it? We’re all being played. Gone Too Viral In a time when our lives were choreographed by algorithms, filled with lip-synced trends, and stitched together into a … Read more
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has unveiled her 2025/26 budget proposal, and it reflects the priorities she laid out in her State of the State Address when she called on State Legislators to work with her to achieve “Arizona’s Promise.” In a Gubernatorial Press Release, the Governor’s Team highlighted the following features of Ms. Hobb’s proposed … Read more
Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more
Hoping to build on the legislative successes of 2024 that included increases in funding for affordable child care, expanded KidsCare through AHCCCS, and continuing vital reforms in child foster care, Arizona Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is looking to the members of the State Legislature to enact several of their recommendations in 2025. They include: CAA … Read more
The United States Congress went into session on January 3. The Arizona State Legislature did so on January 13. What is the first legislative proposals to come down the pike to help the people in Arizona and across the nation? Not a whole hell of a lot. While measures are debated on the House floor … Read more