The local and state activist group, Emerging American Majorities (EAM) has released a digital ad, calling for Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature to stop playing with Arizonan lives and do more to protect people with preexisting conditions (especially during the Coronavirus) than the potentially patient price gauging Mesnard measure that passed the Legislature in … Read more
Tom Stiglich, a syndicated cartoonist, published this editorial cartoon in Newspapers across the Southeast and Midwest on June 10, 2020. As readers can see, this cartoon is filled with fear stoking and racist dog whistles. The African American male mugger robbing a defenseless white woman. The cries for help are rebuffed by the mugger saying … Read more
Has anyone who subscribes to Blog for Arizona ever checked out Legislative District (LD) 11 State Senator Vince Leach’s Facebook Page? It is more frightening than a Stephen King novel. It is a smorgasbord of fringe right-wing lunacy and conspiracy theories. It is the stuff that nightmares are made of and should astonish and scare … Read more
Since many Governors like Doug Ducey have reopened their state’s economies, about half the country has experienced a surge in Coronavirus (COVID 19) cases. Arizona is one of those states. Please read Michael Bryan’s columns on Ducey and the Coronavirus for greater detail. Governor Ducey, out of a premature desire to reopen the state’s economy … Read more
With the revelation that the state may have as much as a $1.1 billion budget deficit over the next two years (as well as a reduction in sales tax revenue,) the worry that vital programs that help our most vulnerable, including children, would be on the chopping block if legislators enacted, like in the foolhardy … Read more