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Legislative Alerts ~ Week of April 22, 2019
Please contact your legislators regarding these bills. The legislature is behind — which should mean a busy week. And, they have yet to seriously start of the big enchilada — The Budget. Education Bills SB 1485 – SUPPORT – Bill would end the 20% annual automatic growth of corporate private school tax credits by gradually […]
Continue readingProgressive Capitalism
We want to provide some important excerpts from a truly great Op-Ed entitled “Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron” with the subtitle “We can save our broken system from itself.” The piece, written by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, was published in the New York Times. Despite the lowest unemployment rates since the late 1960s, […]
Continue readingViolence Against Women Act Languishes in the Senate
by Louise Hublitz The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) expired in December. and still has not been renewed. Originally, passed into law in 1994 the VAWA recognized the severity of the crimes associated with domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, and that individual states were not doing enough to protect women by creating comprehensive laws […]
Continue readingCutting Through the Spin – Mueller Volume I, p. 1
We’re not going to attempt to summarize all 448 pages (some of which are still not public). But we’ll post a few key takeaways, starting with this: “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in a sweeping and systemic fashion.” Mueller Report, Vol. 1, p. 1. The Russian government did NOT just “make […]
Continue readingFor Real Life, Voting Does Matter
We’ve had two dramatic examples of elected officials doing good things for Arizona — because we worked hard in 2018 to get them into office. In the last few days, the Arizona Republic published articles about accomplishments by Kathy Hoffman and Sandra Kennedy. These women and their effectiveness give us hope. Hoffman was praised for […]
Continue readingBetter cleaning of water preserves human health
The April 2 “Wolf’s Den” (AZ Daily Sun) brings an emerging issue to point. Dave Wolf’s call for protecting wetlands and other waters is an essential responsibility we all need to be aware of and take meaningful action to preserve. As Hopi say, “Water is life”. Maintaining water quality enables both human and environmental health […]
Continue readingLegislative Alerts ~ Week of April 15, 2019
Criminal Justice Bill Alerts The following are bills related to Criminal Justice in Arizona. They are out of committee so it is not possible to use the RTS system. Contact your Senators about these bills this week. CONTACT Senators – LD6 & LD7 Sylvia Allen (R) LD6 602-926-5409 Jamescita Peshlakai (D) LD7 […]
Continue readingPresident’s plans just another threat to hurt US
As you know, President Trump has threatened to close the Mexican border. Trump believes that closing the border will solve all our problems with illegal immigration, drugs and human trafficking. Once again Trump, the stable genius, has saved the day. So therefore, why don’t we just go with that? And simply close the Mexican border? […]
Continue readingExamining where job growth came from in March
A few notes on the March job numbers, which the GOP has been touting. The biggest growth sector was the health care industry, with strong hiring in ambulatory care, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities. What happens if Trump and the GOP AGs win their lawsuit to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, throwing […]
Continue readingNot-Permanent Early Voting
SB 1188 is worth a special call to your legislator this week. We’ve had permanent early voting in Arizona — a ballot-by-mail system that’s a model for the nation — and SB 1188 would take that away. It’s one more voter suppression attempt, plain and simple. SB 1188 would drop voters from the Permanent Early […]
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