Probably because the Arizona legislature ended its sessiion on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 49-year precedent of Roe v. Wade, which sucked up all the oxygen in the room, the media did not do its usual reporting on bills that were passed before the Arizona legislature declared sine die. Some of … Read more
Above: Republicans long for the idealic past (a myth) of 1950s Americana – at the height of state-sponsored Jim Crow racial segregation, before the Libs gave us the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Some Republicans even long for the idealic past of 1850s … Read more
A day after the Radical Republican Supreme Court Tears Down What Remained Of The Wall of Separation And Church And State, the White Christian Nationalists in the Arizona House took this as a green light to expand the ESA voucher program to all 1.1 million Arizona students: A proposal to let all 1.1 million Arizona … Read more
Update to Arizona Legislature Is Failing To Address Arizona’s Looming Water Crisis (Updated): The Arizona legislature really only had two priorities to deal with in this legislative session: (1) the school funding cliff that they created last session, and (2) the looming water crisis Arizona faces from a prolonged megadrought due to climate change. [W]hat … Read more
It was just a few short years ago that Arizona’s school districts won a huge lawsuit against the Arizona GQP legislature after years of neglecting funding public schools adequately as required by the Arizona Constitution. Our lawless Gov. Ducey and GQP legislature came up with a gimmick, Prop. 123, essentially stealing money from the state education … Read more