Native-born Arizonan Analise Ortiz has worked her adult life trying to better the lives of her fellow Grand Canyon State Residents. First as a journalist. Then as an advocate. Now as a candidate for the Arizona State House in the new Legislative District 24 which encompasses far West Phoenix and parts of South Glendale Running on a … Read more
Providing Paid Family and Medical Leave Permanently removing the state expenditure cap on public school spending. Ensuring corporations pay their fair share in taxes. Making sure there is accountability for all tax expenditures. Sharing more state revenue with Tribal Communities. Helping the poor. Who would be against any of that? Apparently, most Republicans at the … Read more
As Ronald Reagan said several times in his 1980 Presidential Debate with President Jimmy Carter: “There you go again.” That phrase is apt for the recent attempts by the Arizona fringe right currently occupying the State Republican Party (and across the country) to look for any means to suppress or obstruct people’s (specifically, those that … Read more
Eureka! There may be a light at the end of the tunnel to avert the financial doomsday for the Grand Canyon state’s traditional pubic schools. On Arizona’s birthday, the Republican and Democratic leadership of the Arizona State House and Senate have offered bipartisan measures in both chambers to lift the spending limit cap limit. If … Read more
While Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman was coming before the Senate Education Committee to tell them it was vital to suspend and/or repeal the State Expenditure Spending Cap on traditional public schools, State House Speaker Russell Bowers was telling Sunday Square Off’s Brahm Resnik that school districts have no reason to worry about … Read more