Made in Tucson Market on November 25
November 20, 2018
Hosted by Made in Tucson Market and Historic Fourth Avenue “Meet Tucson artists, take a peek into their processes, and buy locally-made goods! The Made in Tucson Market will be happening November 25, 2018 on Historic Fourth Avenue. This is going to be an impressive marketplace that reflects the authenticity of Tucson and its makers! … Read more
Republican economic policies cause their constituents to fall farther behind the rest of the country economically
November 20, 2018
John Harwood at CNBC has an important report on a new Brookings Institution study documenting that “economic divergence is as central to 21st century polarization as race, gender and religion.” These charts show how Democrats represent the growing modern economy – and how Republicans are left behind: [T]his year’s midterm elections affirmed this much: in … Read more
Midterms Kickstart Democratic Efforts to End Gerrymandering in 2020
November 19, 2018
By Michael Bryan The 2018 midterms have set the table pretty well for the Democratic Party to roll back the GOP’s 2010 gerrymandering spree, and a path to ending the practice is now apparent. Most of the West, New England, much of the Piedmont, and the upper Mid-West are now largely immune to further gerrymandering after … Read more
Stacy Abrams’s ‘concession’ is a call to arms against systematic GOP voter suppression
November 19, 2018
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams acknowledged on Friday that she had no clear path to victory. She did not, however, offer a concession speech but rather a call to arms against systematic GOP voter suppression in Georgia. Video Link. Abrams spoke truth to naked abuse of power. Full Text: Stacey Abrams’ speech to end … Read more
Is there a voter crisis in Arizona?
November 18, 2018
Recently in July 2018 the ASU Morrison Institute for Public Policy issued a report entitled “Arizona’s Voter Crisis”. Here’s the report funded by the Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) and on their website: https://storageccec.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/docs/312-Voter-Crisis-Report-FINAL3.pdf I attended a recent Tucson town hall on October 24 hosted by these 2 entities in which Joseph Garcia of ASU (director … Read more
After the Midterms: The Brave Path
November 18, 2018
We won the midterms. I’m sure many readers shared the sense of visceral relief when it became clear that we at least had the House, that the slide to authoritarianism could be stopped. And then the joy that Krysten Sinema and Katie Hobbs won key statewide victories, the validation of knocking on one more door, … Read more
Suppressed Memo Shows Tucson Police have Abandoned Traffic Enforcement
November 18, 2018
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A suppressed memo from a civilian oversight commission studying the Tucson Police Department reveals that the department has shut down the Traffic Enforcement Division and a night patrol program, cutting the number of traffic stops and tickets by more than half. “The Tucson police have just gotten out of traffic enforcement business. It’s rare to … Read more
What the Arizona GOP fears most: becoming California
November 18, 2018
Republican California governor Pete Wilson in 1994 pushed hard for California Proposition 187 which prohibited illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services in the State of California. Three days after Proposition 187 was approved by voters, on November 11, federal district court judge Matthew Byrne issued a temporary injunction against … Read more
