Will UArizona Sell the Campus Farm to Make Ends Meet?
May 27, 2020
From an email from local organizer Bonnie Poulos regarding the Campus Farms Neighborhood Association. Reprinted with permission. -Michael Bryan, editor BACKGROUND: Not since the late 1990s, when a developer on the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) asked the University to look into the economics of selling off the Campbell Ave Farm, has the Campus Farm been … Read more
Martha McSally and Sylvia Allen to the Unemployed: You do not need anymore Help
May 27, 2020
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The Arizona Unemployment System, as this writer wrote earlier on May 5, 2020, is “broken and needs to be fixed.” Nothing has really changed in the last 22 days. As Laurie Roberts of AZ Central commented in a piece on May 26, 2020: “More than 600,000 Arizonans have applied for unemployment this spring, nearly 25,000 … Read more
‘Liability protection’ does not make legal or economic sense
May 27, 2020
Michael Bryan has addressed in earlier posts the misguided emphasis by the Chamber of Commerce and their Republican allies to give businesses what will essentially result in immunity from legal liability for their actions, or inaction, in protecting their employees or their customers from the spread of the coronavirus. Just the opposite emphasis should apply. … Read more
Reopened too soon: the ‘COVID Summer’ has begun
May 27, 2020
Above Photo: Visitors crowd the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend on May 23, 2020. The headline in the Arizona Republic today is Arizona saw highest single-day ER visits; Yuma sees spike in cases related to COVID-19 over weekend: The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Yuma Regional … Read more
Biden projects leadership in CNN interview; calls Donald Trump a Fool for Not Wearing Masks and Risking American Lives
May 27, 2020
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To wear a mask or not wear a mask should not even be a question in Joe Biden or anyone else who does not live on Fox Island or the Trump Zone, minds. On the Biden campaigns Facebook Page, they changed the former Vice President’s side photo to one with him wearing a mask: They … Read more
St. Louis Post-Dispatch fact checks ‘a lie of colossal Trumpian proportions’
May 26, 2020
Donald Trump has been perpetuating a tale, like Old Mother Hubbard “the cupboard was bare” when he became president, and despite having three years to restock the cupboard (which was not bare, as we learn), “it’s all Obama’s fault” that he was so unprepared to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Because “I don’t take responsibility at all,” … Read more
Sound the alarm: budget cuts to public education are on the AZ Legislature agenda
May 26, 2020
The economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic has meant our state ad local governments have taken a major economic hit to their budgets through reduced sales tax revenues, which Arizona too heavily relies upon. In April, it was estimated that Arizona faces an estimated $1.1 billion budget shortfall in the coming year economic hit due … Read more
Upcoming PCDP Virtual Debates for Pima County primary candidates
May 26, 2020
Virtual Debates will be held on our PCDP Facebook Page at 1 pm on the day posted for each candidate. May 30 – Assessor – Brian Johnson, Suzanne Droubie, and Dustin Walters May 31 – County Attorney – Laura Conover, Mark Thomas Diebolt Jr., Jonathan Mosher June 6 – County Recorder – Kimberly Challender, Gabriella … Read more
