Fact Checking GOP Tucson City Council Candidates’ Walk Pieces
October 5, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A Republican campaign worker dropped off walk pieces for the GOP Tucson Council Council candidates at my door today. (I understand that Republicans have $1 million to drop on this city council race and have the money to piss away on Democratic voters). Well, I'll make you pay for littering my doorstep
Imagine Schools in Arizona: an example
October 5, 2009
by David SafierThis is one of a series of posts, Peeking into Charter Schools. If you have information you wish to contribute, you can post comments or email me: safier@schooltales.net. I looked through the financial data on charter schools at the AZ DOE to get a sense of how Imagine Schools here spend their money.
The curious case of Mayor Bob Walkup
October 5, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Pima County Republicans, with the assistance of certain individuals at the Arizona Daily Star, have tried to characterize the Tucson City Council as "dysfunctional" and leaderless. First of all, the hands-down winner for "dysfunctional" government in Arizona is the Maricopa County government, where everyone is suing everyone else, and the Sheriff and
Welcome to Thunderdome!
October 5, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am a diehard baseball fan. I have not written about this season since opening day. Opening Day: For the Love of The Game But now it is the second season, playoff baseball for the ALCS and NLCS and World Series. October is the best baseball month of all. My hometown team
Is the Charter School Board doing its job?
October 4, 2009
by David Safier A recent article in the Republic revealed that a charter school, Sequoia Choice Arizona Distance Learning, has been getting state money — the per pupil dollars charters get to educate kids — to furnish courses for students at Joy Christian School. This is wrong, and most likely illegal, in a few ways.
Opinion: Prop. 200 An Irrational Solution to a Nonexistent Problem
October 4, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Former Mayor of Tucson George Miller and former Tucson City Manager Luis G. Gutierrez teamed up to write this opinion which appeared today (shock!) in the Arizona Daily Star An irrational solution to a nonexistent problem: Proposition 200 seeks voter approval for a change to the Tucson Charter that would mandate the
Update: More substance-free reporting from the Arizona Daily Star
October 4, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Did you know the City of Tucson has a city council election this year? And that early vote-by-mail balloting begins this Thursday, October 8th? Have you seen any reporting about the candidates and their stances on the issues in the Arizona Daily Star? No? That is because there hasn't been any. The
Why does the right hate America?
October 3, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Remember how the American right seized upon the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980 when a ragtag U.S. hockey team defeated the World Champion Soviet Union team and went on to win the gold medal at the Lake Placid, N.Y. Winter Olympics? Fans waved American flags and chanted "USA! USA! USA!" America was
