In perhaps the most moronic comments ever to come from a White House Press Briefing (with the possible exception of Mr. Trump saying people should use disinfectant to combat the Coronavirus,) the White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany repeated the 2016 Popular Vote Loser’s calls to reopen schools, saying at one point “the science should … Read more
Today’s Ducey press conference was not the disaster last weeks was (although he really had nowhere to go but up in performance.) Armed with data, backed by organizations like CNN, the New York Times, and Johns Hopkins University that the COVID 19 situation in Arizona may be stabilizing and starting to decline, a more confident … Read more
The Arizona Democratic Party hosted a press call “on Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos’s reckless threat to force schools to reopen without a plan to keep students, families, teachers, and staff safe.” Ms. DeVos, the Secretary of Education, will be in Arizona tomorrow to attend a closed-door virtual meeting of the Federalist Society. Apparently meeting … Read more
Fellow Blog of Arizona writer Carolyn Classen first reported on this event on July 9, 2020. Yesterday (July 13, 2020) a group of school board members, including Maricopa County School Superintendent Candidate Jeanne Casteen, and health specialists took a letter to Governor Doug Ducey to recommend that he delay the reopening of in-person instruction in … Read more
At Governor Doug Ducey’s press briefing today, we had a State Chief Executive that clearly knew Arizona had rising COVID 19 cases, hospitalizations, and fatalities. He knows that hospital capacity is starting to burst at the seams and there is a greater need for additional testing and contact tracing. He, contrary to the perceptions of … Read more