Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Report: Putin’s War In Ukraine Doubled The World’s Rate Of Inflation
Last Friday’s Consumer Price Index report showed consumer prices rose 8.6 percent from a year earlier and 1 percent from April — a monthly increase that was more rapid than economists had predicted and about triple the previous pace. Inflation Sped Up Again in May, Dashing Hopes for Relief : Friday’s Consumer Price Index report … Read more
New ADLCC Board Chair and Assistant House Democratic Leader Jennifer Longdon Discusses 2022 Legislative Democrat Prospects
2022 is the Democrats election to lose in both Arizona and across the nation. On issue after issue, value after value, and candidate after candidate, it is the Democrats that have the best ideas, convictions, and the superior aspirants to make the affirmative case to voters this election cycle. One person that feels this is … Read more
Kirsten Engel is First to Air Ad in CD6 Race
Kirsten Engel and her daughter Helene appear in the first broadcast campaign ad of the season for Congressional District 6. It’s a simple, sweet introduction to the candidate framing the key issues she (and Helene…) wants to run on. Coming to a television near you… if you still watch broadcast or cable tv 😉 Kirsten … Read more
Celebrate Juneteenth on June 18
“Juneteenth[c] (officially Juneteenth National Independence Day and also known as Jubilee Day,[3] Emancipation Day,[4][5] Freedom Day, and Black Independence Day[6]) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans.” (from wikipedia) Info on Tucson Juneteenth: (1) Tucson Juneteenth Festival | Facebook Also another Juneteenth event in Tempe on June 18, see our calendar: 9th Annual Juneteenth Celebration in Tempe – Blog for Arizona
The Big Lie Is A Big Grift To Shake Down The Rubes In The MAGA/QAnon Cult
The second day of the January 6 Committee hearings clearly established, from Trump campaign officials to Republican campaign lawyers to DOJ attorneys – Republicans all – that there there was no fraud in the 2020 election and that they all told Donald Trump this. He knew that he lost. He knew that his claims of … Read more
Javier Ramos Reacts to the Latest Contemptible Behavior From Andy Biggs
As AZ Blue Meanie has already reported, Andy Biggs can not show common decency and respect to victims of the Uvalde mass school shooting by attending a committee hearing (of which he is a member) on the tragic incident. That is in addition to recent revelations that one of the reasons Mr. Biggs does not … Read more
Casino Capitalism’s Bubble Bursts On Wall Street
The investor class aka the predator class in the casino capitalism of Wall Street drove the stock market to unprecedented levels, despite a global pandemic and the recession it created. They bought into the irrational exuberance that the stock market always goes up. There were those experts who have been warning that Wall Street was … Read more
