In an often emotional and contentious Committee of the Whole meeting today in the AZ House, House Bill 2677 passed by 32/28 in a largely party line vote, opening the way for the AZ Senate to act to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. Most of the GOP caucus seemed determined to keep and seek to ... Read more ..read more

As a Co-Host of this event, I would like to invite everyone here at BlogForArizona to join us for a Tucson Environmentalists house party fundraiser for John McLean for State Senate in Legislative District 17. John will be facing off with either the incumbent Justine Wadsack (#JustMeanWadsack) or the pre-redistricting incumbent Vince Leach (depending on ... Read more ..read more

Long time six term former Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall today wrote a guest opinion in the AZ Daily Star “Laura Conover has failed this community” https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-laura-conover-has-failed-this-community/article_15847df0-0183-11ef-8f84-979640492fd7.html#tracking-source=home-top-story (print edition A6 & 7) Laura Conover was first elected to Pima County Attorney in Nov. 2020. Prior to that she was a criminal defense attorney. LaWall states ... Read more ..read more

Opening Doors.  Listening to and Serving the People. Those are two of the reasons former Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez is running to become the next House Representative from Arizona Congressional District (CD) Two.  CD Two is comprised of all or parts of Apache, Gila, Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Mohave, Pinal, Navajo, and Yavapai Counties.  The ... Read more ..read more

Mayor Kate Gallego presented an optimistic vision for Phoenix’s future in her annual State of the City Address at a Great Chamber of Commerce Luncheon today (April 23, 2024.) Maintaining the theme from previous addresses that “the future is Phoenix,” the Mayor, after thanking her father and many individuals on her team at the City ... Read more ..read more

Do you see armed men in camouflage with Trump flags at your polling place? Call the FBI at 800-225-5324 or file an online complaint at tips.fbi.gov.<br>    Browser not supported. Visit <a href=”https://www.270towin.com/”>www.270towin.com</a><br> The Justice Department issued voter protection guides and a video on www.justice.gov/voting that provides information on the Department’s Election Threats Task Force, which ... Read more ..read more

Progress Arizona has launched a campaign to NOT RETAIN Arizona Supreme Court Justices Bolick and King for their judicial performance review by voters this November. It’s time to clean the Court of justices who vote to take away the rights of our citizens. I generally do not feel that policy disagreements would merit non-retention, but ... Read more ..read more

It’s time for Arizona voters to overthrow Arizona’s cabal of Putin sympathizers in Congress who voted against Ukraine defense funding. Instead, they supported Communist Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion of the eastern European country. The Republican Bolsheviks voted against the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, H.R. 8035, in the House of Representatives on April ... Read more ..read more

Following the call from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at a Minnesota Teachers-Education event, (please click here to watch; the First Lady starts to speak at about 32:20,) Arizona instructors and pro-public school activists gathered at the Arizona Education Association (AEA) offices in Phoenix to help launch Educators for Biden/Harris. Speaking at the event, Legislative ... Read more ..read more

If William Claude Jones were alive today, he would undoubtedly be in jail for pedophilia and statutory rape. Unfortunately for history and Arizona’s women today, this “man,” a person who had wives aged 12, 14, and 15 while moving westward for political advancement and, in the case of the 12-year-old bride, running away from the ... Read more ..read more