(UPDATED) The Phoenix City Council will decide whether to Ratify Mayor Kate Gallego’s Emergency Declaration
March 20, 2020
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On Tuesday, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, following Mayors Coral Evans of Flagstaff and Regina Romero of Tucson declared a State of Emergency for the city because of the threat of the Coronavirus. This proclamation called for the closure of public social gathering locations like restaurants and bars. Since then Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell has proclaimed … Read more
Andy Biggs put Personal Bigotry over People’s Lives during a Pandemic
March 19, 2020
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Arizona Congressional District Five (and current Freedom Circus/Caucus leader) Representative Andy Biggs is a poor excuse for a public servant. A public servant should put the needs of his constituents, no matter what race they belong to, what God they worship, what sexual orientation they subscribe to, over his or her own. During a pandemic … Read more
The coming unemployment crisis from the ‘coronavirus recession’ (revised and updated)
March 19, 2020
What do you see wrong in the photo above? A large group of people congregating less than six feet apart — in disregard of CDC social distancing guidelines — at a One-Stop Career Center for unemployment insurance benefits after having been laid off from their service sector employment in Las Vegas. A massive number of … Read more
Straight talk from an infectious disease expert on the coronavirus pandemic (updated)
March 19, 2020
Michael T. Osterholm is Regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, and coauthor of “Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs” (2017): For decades, Osterholm has been in the business of telling people what they don’t necessarily want to hear: Pandemics are inevitable; outbreaks … Read more
Trump’s American Coronavirus Body Count
March 18, 2020
It is now certain that owing to a lack of the kind of early interventions used in successful responses to the Coronavirus pandemic in places such as Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea, we in America have missed the window for effective containment of the epidemic in this country. We are now on a track … Read more
The KKK Endorsed Candidate Steps in It Again by calling the Coronavirus the Chinese Virus
March 18, 2020
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EJ Montini of AZ Central noted in his most recent column that Mr. Trump has resorted to calling the Coronavirus “The Chinese Virus” in retaliation for operatives from China spreading a false conspiracy theory that the American military called the virus. When asked about this at the daily Coronavirus briefing this morning where it was … Read more
Congress is not serious about the size and the scope of economic stimulus needed
March 18, 2020
Above Photo: Unemployment line in the Great Depression. This would not be allowed today under the CDC guidelines for the coronavirus pandemic (not allowed to congregate in restaurants, six feet of spacing for social distancing). We are living in interesting times, as the old Chinese curse goes. In an unprecedented move in modern history, the … Read more
Do the Arizona State House Republicans Know there is a Health Crisis
March 17, 2020
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The Republicans in the Arizona State House did something today that on the surface makes sense. They suspended House rules to allow remote off-site voting from non-Capitol locations. That makes sense considering that, during this Coronavirus Crisis, no more than 10 people should be together in a social gathering. Democrats would support this move if … Read more
