GOP budget negotiations end in impasse
June 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Arizona Senate President Bob "Bluto" Burns imploded the "double super secret" GOP budget negotiations with our Accidental Governor on Sunday evening when negotiations ended in a GOP food fight and Burns walked out in a dramatic exit. State budget talks stall as suit is threatened Well, there's the problem – too many
UPDATE: Bill to eviscerate Citizens Clean Elections voted out of Senate Judiciary Committee
June 16, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tucson's wannabe tin horn dictator, Sen. Jonathan Paton, not satisfied with telling the residents of Tucson how they must conduct their local elections, and still not satisfied with telling the parents of Tucson Unified School District what curriculum TUSD must teach their children, yesterday told the voters of Arizona that we were
Why we need Ethnic Studies
June 16, 2009
by David SafierTom Horne's statement should be required reading in ethnic studies classes — in TUSD schools and at universities. It's a classic. "We should be teaching these students that this is the land of opportunity," Horne told the committee. "We should not be teaching them that they are oppressed." And we should be teaching
Greenwald on war supplemental
June 15, 2009
by David SafierI'm putting this up as information, not as an endorsement. Robert Greenwald made the video below to encourage people to call their Congress members and tell them to vote no on the War Supplemental legislation which continues funding for the military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. As someone whose default stance is anti
Arizona Citizens Clean Elections under attack again
June 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports that Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission is under attack again: On June 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear testimony and vote on whether to further SCR1025 for a full Senate consideration. The referendum would allow Arizona voters to amend the state's Constitution to
Arizona Democratic Party launches “Bad Plan Jan” web page
June 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Democratic Party today launched a new web page complete with a “countdown to government shutdown” clock, entitled “Bad Plan Jan.” Here is the press release with a link to the web page: Brewer’s budget jeopardizes Arizona’s future, Democrats stand opposedArizona Democratic Party unveils webpage highlighting Brewer’s short-sighted budget Today the
Leader of Minutemen American Defense border watch group arrested for murder and robbery in Arizona
June 15, 2009
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You may have seen on the evening news KOLD News 13 or read about in the newspaper 3 arrested in killings of dad, girl in Arivaca the arrest of Shawna Forde, the leader of Minutemen American Defense (a group out of Washington state that conducts operations along the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona)
National study: Charter schools a mixed bag
June 15, 2009
by David SafierStanford University just put out a nationwide study of charter schools. The overall conclusion is that students in charter schools do slightly worse than the same students would do in traditional public schools. But the results are so mixed that the conclusion doesn't mean much. Individual findings in the study are far more
