Most Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are warring against Democracy on several fronts. Not only are they endeavoring to enact measures designed to suppress the vote, but they are also advancing proposals to circumvent the will of the people at the ballot box. Senate Bill (SB) 1783 is the latest example of this. This … Read more
School Teachers in Arizona are 50th in salary earnings compared to their colleagues across the country. Jim Small of the Arizona Mirror published an article citing the findings of HireAHelper, a California firm that conducted the study analyzing instructor salaries across the United States. Of the 50 largest cities, Phoenix and the surrounding suburbs of … Read more
Yesterday (February 9, 2021), Arizona Superior Court Judge John Hannah issued a blistering ruling against the opponents of Invest in Ed-Proposition 208 who had sought to prevent its taking effect. This is a great victory for children and public education in the Grand Canyon State. Please click here to read fellow blogger Larry Bodine’s account … Read more
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
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