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Gallego and Ansari, along with Community Partners, Expand the Green Economy with the Grand Opening of a Circular Plastics Micro Factory
February 7, 2024
In another move designed to promote a green economy, add green collar jobs to Arizona’s workforce, and further the Phoenix Climate Action Plan Goal of reaching zero waste by 2050, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, District Seven Councilwoman (and Congressional Candidate) Yassamin Ansari, along with representatives from ASU, Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona, and Hustle
MAGA Republicans, By Abandoning Their Own Border Deal, Prove Again They Are Not For the American People and Law and Order
February 7, 2024
We have played a variation of this song before. In 2009/10, the Democrats, in order to get a bipartisan health care plan through Congress, largely adopted the provisions of the Massachusetts Romneycare (as in Governor, now Utah Senator Mitt Romney) for a national model. Republicans opposed it anyway and have never come up with a
Arizona Democratic Officeholders Strongly Condemn Republican Voter Suppression Bill to Address the Election Mess MAGA Legislators Created
February 5, 2024
In 2022 when it was becoming increasingly clear in the Cyber Ninjas fiasco that there was no fraud in the Presidential Elections in Arizona, Republican lawmakers and Governor Doug Ducey, largely at the behest of their Trumpets-MAGA masters passed a election law that would trigger more automatic voter recounts if the margin of victory is
Fitz: The Cyber Ninja Saga, Part 4
February 5, 2024
Crossposted with permission from David Fitzsimmons’ excellent SubStack ‘Arizona’s Progressive Voice’. Why aren’t you paying subscriber, already? Trump’s boy, Doug Logan, “Patriot Doug”, Doug the fine Christian father of twelve, had failed to find any voter fraud in Maricopa County in the 2020 election. In fact, just the opposite. Biden had won by more votes than
League of Women Voters of AZ 2024 Legislative Week – February 19 to 23
February 4, 2024
2024 LEGISLATIVE LOBBY WEEK SAVE THE DATES“Join us for the 2024 LWVAZ Annual Legislative Lobby Week, featuring a Lobby Day at the Arizona Capitol on Friday, Feb. 23, and virtual Lunch and Learn programs on Monday, Feb. 19, Tuesday, Feb. 20, Wednesday, Feb. 21, and Thursday, Feb. 22. This year’s legislative week revolves around the
Buyer Beware: Superintendent Tom Horne Wants Arizona Public Schools to Use Unaccredited and Inaccurate Prager University Resources To Educate Children
February 4, 2024
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne has continued his ascent into the Orwellian stratosphere of Alt-Right Knowledge with his announcement on January 31, 2024, that he would make the resources of unaccredited and right-wing leaning Prager University available for public school teachers to show children in their classrooms on the Department website with other
After the First Month of the New Year, the Political Stars Seem to be Finally Aligning…for President Joe Biden
February 4, 2024
The new year, with the exception of the terrible events occurring in the Middle East, has been very kind, so far, to the Biden/Harris Campaign. The President and his team have issued several social media posts on several of these events. Below are a few samples. On Mr. Trump wanting the economy to crash so
The House Passes a Much-Needed Expansion of the Child Tax Credit; 424,000 Arizona Children Could Be Lifted Out of Poverty
February 4, 2024
One of the misfortunes of the American Rescue Plan was that the provisions to expand the Child Tax Credit for the nation’s families expired at the end of 2021 after helping drop the child poverty rate to its lowest rate in decades. While several states, including Arizona, sought local remedies to partially or fully make
