School Masks Are In: Judge Cooper Rules Republicans in the Arizona Legislature Violated the State Constitution

This is a good day for Arizona schools and public health safety in the Grand Canyon state. In a 17-page ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled several state laws unconstitutional, including laws that prohibited mask mandates in schools, took away power from the Secretary of State, banned “critical race theory” in classrooms, … Read more

Mark Brnovich Puts Political Ambition Over Public Safety Again

Mark Brnovich is trying to rehabilitate himself with the fringe base of his party that is disenchanted with him for not protesting the Arizona results of the 2020 Presidential Election. In an attempt to demonstrate (before the Republican Senate Primary which he is running in) that he has their science-denying-Know Nothing interests at heart, the … Read more

Arizona Parents Cheer The Biden/Harris Administration’s Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

The New York Times has reported that COVID relief measures enacted under both the Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris Administrations (expanded unemployment insurance, stimulus checks, increased food stamp access, and more recently the expansion of the child tax credit) have reduced poverty in this country by almost 50 percent. According to the Times reporting, the main beneficiaries … Read more

(UPDATED) Habemus Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal

Do you believe in miracles? A group of Democratic and Republican Senators (including Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema) has concluded a bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal that would provide much-needed funding to the nation’s roads, bridges, railways, waterways, airports, and broadband. Eureka! Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier today (July 28, 2021) that a vote to … Read more