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Arpaio hearts Huppenthal for Ed Supe
May 4, 2009
by David SafierOur friends on the right over at Sonoran Alliance are thrilled to announce, "Arizona's most popular elected official endorses Sen. John Huppenthal for Schools Superintendent." That may be a good thing for Hupp's primary chances. It looks like he and Rep. Rich Crandall may be squaring off for the Republican spot — the
K12 Inc. school in Philadelphia accused of fraud
May 4, 2009
by David SafierIf you've been reading BfA for awhile, you know I ran a series of investigative posts about the charter, Arizona Virtual Academy, which is one of a group of nationwide online schools run by K12 Inc. What I had found was that the school and others in the system were outsourcing student papers
Maybe she should talk at a fundamentalist Christian preschool?
May 4, 2009
by David SafierPoor Condi (he wrote, his keyboard dripping with sarcasm). She just can't go out in public these days without getting grief for the way she did her job of the past eight years. First Stanford, now the Jewish Primary Day School in D.C. At Stanford Condi got into a shouting match with a
The day’s best headline
May 4, 2009
by David SafierThe day is young, but I defy you to find a better headline than this before midnight tonight: Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash. state It's not only funny because it's true, but it's funny because the pilot walked away unhurt.
Four year community colleges?
May 3, 2009
by David SafierHigher education is not my specialty, so I offer this for discussion without taking much of a position one way or the other. Should we turn some of Arizona's two year community colleges into four year, Bachelors Degree granting institutions? It's happening elsewhere. On the plus side, a four year college education would
Bye bye, Encarta
May 3, 2009
by David Safier I was never a big encyclopedia fan — the 25 volume Britannica I grew up with in my living room pretty much gathered dust in my literate household — but the end of Encarta, Microsoft's digital encyclopedia, merits notice. In the internet age, it no longer serves much purpose. Its last gasp
A disease far more dangerous than influenza
May 3, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: According to Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal the origination of the swine flu (or A/H1N1 influenza) is still unknown Germ Sleuths Stalk Origin of Killer Flu A picture is now emerging of how U.S. and Mexican officials, with a key assist from a Canadian government lab, first realized they faced a new
Update: Wanker Bankers Own Capitol Hill
May 3, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Paul Blumenthal at Huffington Post details the financial services industry lobbying efforts in this post Paul Blumenthal: Do They Frankly Own the Place? You Betcha!: "[Sen. Richard] Durbin remarked about the banking industry's relation with Congress by saying, "they frankly own the place." You would think that this might be an exaggeration,
