A Great Day for LGBTQ Civil Rights: President Biden Lifts Trump’s Ban on Transgender Individuals Serving in the Military

President Joe Biden is on a roll. Today, he continued to fulfill the promises he made to the American People during the 2020 Campaign and signed an Executive Order to lift Donald Trump’s ban on excluding Transgender Individuals from serving in the military. According to reporting by the Washington Post, the White House released a … Read more

Ducey’s New Budget Generates Mixed Reaction in Democratic Circles

Governor Doug Ducey released his budget for the Fiscal Year 2022 yesterday (January 15, 2021.) As Yellow Sheet reports, It contains modest budget increases in: Education Programs like early literacy, school construction, civic education, school transportation, summer school (to help children catch up from the Coronavirus related issues.) Broadband expansion. Criminal Justice reform like monies … Read more

In Wanting to Make Nice With His Science Denying Base, Doug Ducey Goes to War Against Arizona’s Public Schools

In his 2021 State of the State Address, Governor Doug Ducey, in an attempt to make nice with the rabid Trumpist science-reality-denying fringe base that disowned him after his support for the November 3, 2020 elections, decided to devote significant portions of his address to justifying his approach to combatting the COVID 19 Pandemic and … Read more

Arizona Reaction to President-Elect Biden’s Plans to Reopen Schools

During and after the 2020 Presidential Campaign. the Biden/Harris team championed a plan to reopen as many public schools as possible during the pandemic. In remarks on December 8, 2020, when he introduced his Health Care team, the President-Elect commented on how he planned to combat the Coronavirus in the first 100 days of his … Read more