Update to AZ School Districts Call For A Special Session To Fix The Fiscal Cliff Crisis Of The Education Aggregate Spending Limit (Sept. 2022). Still waiting! Gov. Doug Ducey is the self-proclaimed “education governor” (see above PR stunt). What a crock of shit. No Governor has been more successful in destroying public education in Arizona … Read more
Republicans are anti-public education, what these White Christian Nationalists disparage as secular “government schools.” Their objective is to totally privatize the pubic education system into a for-profit private education system which would allow for religious indoctrination (of the White Christian Nationalist variety, naturally) and not having to comply with non-discrimination provisions in federal law, as the … Read more
LA Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik makes the same point I have been harping on: Republicans keep harping on inflation, but don’t have any answers for it: Even if you didn’t know from your household accounts that inflation has been running hot this year, your local Republican officeholders and candidates would make sure it wasn’t … Read more
CBS News reports, Oil giants rake in record profits as energy prices remain high (excerpt): Oil companies are reporting surging profits as energy prices remain elevated. Exxon Mobil broke records with its profits in the third quarter, raking in $19.7 billion in net income, a nearly $2 billion increase from its second quarter. The Irving, … Read more
NBC News reports, Chief Justice Roberts temporarily blocks release of Trump’s tax records to House Democrats: Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a congressional committee from accessing former President Donald Trump’s tax records. Trump, unlike other recent presidents, has refused to make his tax returns public amid scrutiny of his business affairs, and … Read more