The Financial Clock is Ticking Again on Arizona’s Public Schools

Here we go again. For the second year in a row, Governor Doug Ducey and the Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are fiddling while the financial prospects of Arizona Public Schools increasingly become perilous because many of these anti-public school members will not hold a vote to suspend or outright repeal the Aggregate Expenditure … Read more

Are We Better Off Than We Were Two Years Ago? With Democratic Policies, Yes; With Republican Ones; No

Arizona Republican Senate Nominee Blake Masters, the fringe candidate that wants to take away your Social Security, Medicare, reproductive freedom (which he equates to belonging to a demonic cult,) and right to vote in an easy fashion, has been putting out signs in the neighborhood, asking, quoting Ronald Reagan “Are you better off now than … Read more

Kari Lake’s Economic Plans are Like Most Republican Ones: False Promises and Not Paid For

Ronald Reagan boldly promised that his supply side-trickle-down economic tax cuts would stimulate long-term economic growth and pay for themselves. They did not and the national debt skyrocketed. George W. Bush promised the same. Same results. So did Donald Trump. Everyone knows what happened there. Republican Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and his pals in the … Read more

None of Doug Ducey’s Picks for the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority Seems to Have Any Expertise in Water Policy

Apparently having expertise in water policy is not the first qualification for a Doug Ducey appointee to serve on the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority, the state organ that “finances the design and construction of water and wastewater infrastructure projects.” According to the recently passed a one billion dollars, water security measure passed at the end … Read more

No Surprise: The Rich People that Never Sent Their Children to Public School are the Ones Mostly Applying for Voucher Scholarships

Well, the official word is out on the first infusion of applications for the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (Private School Vouchers) thanks to the universal expansion passed by plutocrat Doug Ducey and his anti-public school supporters in the Arizona State Legislature. It is not a surprise for anyone who predicted what would happen. @azedschools estimates that … Read more