In what is sure to be a 2020 election-year issue, House Democrats passed the Elijah Cummings Lower Drug Costs Act (also known as Lower Drug Costs Now Act) on December 12, 2019. This legislation, designed to give the federal government power to negotiate drug prices for Medicare and private insurance recipients, has already been consigned … Read more
What is it about Reactionary Social Darwinist Republican Conservatives that like to prey on the most vulnerable with draconian repressive social policies while fattening the wallets of the one percent with bloated and unpaid individual and corporate tax cuts? Last summer, the Trump Administration announced its intention to tighten rules in the SNAP … Read more
Arizona Clean Elections Commission hosted a We the Voters day long conference on Oct. 26 at the Phoenix Convention Center. View a YouTube video of a panel discussion by all 4 Chairs of the political parties in Arizona, on Political Party Perspective: L to R on the 50 minute video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MMMVhmCh3Q&list=PLQ-LFUP9g3FHonCWo7NTRPalhgrrUnF8O&index=3 Kelli Ward, Chair of the … Read more
Article 11 of the State Constitution of Arizona deals with public education. Section six concerns higher education at the state’s public universities. It states “instruction” at state universities “shall (not should) be as free as possible.” Well, according to a new study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Arizona “Public Servants” (Republicans) in … Read more
Despite the many attempts by the Republicans to thwart Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) that have resulted in higher health care costs, the proliferation of substandard health insurance plans, and a rise in the number of medically uninsured, a glimmer of good news has surfaced in Arizona just weeks prior to the opening of the … Read more