While acknowledging “the end is not on the horizon” with the Coronavirus Pandemic in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey announced some enhanced COVID 19 mitigation measures at the state’s major airports and schools, but refrained from proclaiming a mask-wearing mandate for the Grand Canyon State. He also condemned death threats against Secretary of State Katie Hobbs … Read more
With COVID 19 numbers rising in the Navajo Nation (which stretches across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico,) the leadership, for the second time this year, instituted a three-week lockdown to mitigate the spread of the pandemic. The Nation has seen a surge in new cases with 172 reported last weekend. In the previous surge last … Read more
On social media on late Monday afternoon, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, reacting to the surge in COVID 19 in the Grand Canyon State, posted: “I am in support of the following actions: ✅ a statewide mask mandate ✅ quarantine and testing requirements for seasonal residents ✅ a limit on social gatherings ✅ a … Read more
When the history of how Doug Ducey and Cara Christ handled the Coronavirus is written, significant portions will be allocated to how wimpy the two of them have been because they feared the lunatic fringe of their party. The Governor displayed this at the briefing yesterday (October 29, 2020) when he acknowledged that COVID cases … Read more
There was always going to be a science-denying fringe exception to the rule. On a day when AZ Central reported that the Grand Canyon State has the highest rate of pediatric COVID 19 cases in the country, several (mostly rural and in southeastern Maricopa County) Arizona school districts have apparently decided to ignore the state … Read more