So glad that I’m not at the lege today…
Posted by Craig McDermott I am unable to trek down to the Capitol today, and after watching the Senate Appropriations meeting online for 30 minutes, I'm glad I'm staying away. After listening to Russell Pearce pontificate on George Soros trying to legalize heroin (Pearce is still ticked off over the Voter Protection Act being voted … Read more
Arizona Daily Star comes late to the party in support of health care reform
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Daily Star today in an editorial opinion came out strongly for passage of the health care reform bill. Health-care bill must be passed now, not in 5 years. Well, gee thanks guys. You are a little late to the party. Where was this over the past year when it really … Read more
I didn’t say it
by David Safier I didn't say it, but J. Davidson did in a comment about Ladner's Zany, Zen-y Emails, referring to the text of one of Ladner's emails in response to my "Are teachers bureaucrats too?" question. "All baseballs are balls, but not all balls are baseballs." Dude. Ladner gets paid $141,000 a year for … Read more
And so it continues – the gutting of Arizona’s future
Posted by Craig McDermott I and others will do a more complete analysis of the bills that the lege is pushing as its budget "solution", but here is a brief bit on each, mostly from the factsheets prepared by legislative staff. I'm using the House bills here, but the Senate has an identical version of … Read more
“Tell it to the Navy SEALS”
by David Safier BruceJ, a reader, chimes in about Ladner's "all government employees except teachers are bureaucrats" line: If he literally believes that everyone who works for the government is a bureaucrat, he should have no trouble telling a buncha Navy SEALS that they're 'just bureaucrats'.
Private schools’ 3-to-1 ratio: a reader comments
by David Safier The Goldwater Institute maintains Arizona's private schools have a 3-to-1 teacher to non-teacher ratio. Reader Parent X wonders how G.I. arrived at that figure: The private schools in this state don't have to release any kind of information like that, and I'd be absolutely shocked if there is any comprehensive employee list … Read more
Quick update – special and regular session
Posted by Craig McDermott …Right now, we are waiting for the beginning (actually the restarting) of last Friday's meeting of Senate Approps. Due to the fact that a number of members couldn't be in town last Friday, they didn't achieve the quorum necessary to conduct business and will do so after a meeting of Senate … Read more
