The Farley Report 9-1-09
September 2, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rep. Steve Farley (D-Tucson) is back after a hiatus with the Farley Report: It's been a month since I last wrote you. On the budget front–despite a whole lot of talk and drama–nothing has happened. It really is like living in that great movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray keeps waking up
Giffords on the public option
September 1, 2009
by David SafierI'm gonna get hopeful once again, about Giffords' stand of the public option. Hopeful is good, especially when it has some justification. I just returned from her town hall at Sahuaro High. If I heard what I think I heard, Giffords gave a pretty strong endorsement of the idea of a public option.
Epic Media Failure (Again!) in reporting on Health Care Reform
September 1, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The media villagers and Beltway bloviators issued a series of mea culpas to the public in recent years for their unquestioning, and often enabling (in some cases propaganda) reporting on the build up to the war in Iraq and cheerleading the housing bubble economy. They told us, "we're sorry we failed you,
Noted without comment
September 1, 2009
by David SafierHeadline: National Tea Party tour rolls into Flagstaff. Over a thousand people showed up on Monday night to hear two bus-loads of conservative activists speak. The activists were part of the National Tea Party Express tour. [snip] There were several Arizona politicians that also addressed the crowd. Senator Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, echoed the
Budget Update: Five-Way Budget Talks Fall Apart
September 1, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Monday went from bad to worse at the state capitol. First the bad. The Arizona Capitol Times blog reported Five-party talks in peril: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema spoke to our reporter at the conclusion of today’s five-party talks. “I’m not sure there’s going to be any more of those meetings,” she said. She
Good news on the tuition tax credit front
September 1, 2009
by David SafierThe Catholic Tuition Organization for the Diocese of Phoenix, a School Tuition Organization that receives tuition tax credit donations and gives them out as scholarships, never used to allow donors to recommend who the money should go to. But their funding grew stagnant, so they recently decided to accept recommendations. But now they're
Does this sound threatening to you? Part 2
August 31, 2009
by David SafierA few hours ago, I posted about a letter from Tom Horne to administrators and school board members that sounded both overly harsh and threatening to my ears. Now I'm wondering if it may be deceptive as well. Just wondering, mind you. I'm not a lawyer or a legislator, so I'm only stating
The government is being paid back TARP funds at a profit
August 31, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The New York Times today published this report As Biggest Banks Repay Bailout Money, the U.S. Sees a Profit Matthew Yglesias provides some analysis TARP Profits: I’ve been complaining for a while now about the tendency of commentators to treat the $700 billion TARP bailout as if it’s 100 percent losses when
