Last Week This Morning: A waste of $3M
We won’t give up. Last week, the Senate Parliamentarian, an unelected advisor,issued an opinion that a pathway to citizenship shouldn’t be included in the Build Back Better reconciliation bill. Advocates are rightfully pushing back, demanding that Democrats deliver on their promises to protect millions of undocumented people in the United States. They can do this by firing or ignoring […]
Last Week This Morning: Strike at Sky Harbor
House budget plan. Last Monday, the U.S. House unveiled their plan to pay for the Build Back Better Agenda. The package is widely popular with voters, and would make important investments in social policy and green energy. Taxes will not go up for anyone making less than $400K per year, but will be raised on corporations and […]
Last Week This Morning: What Texas means for AZ
Abortion ban passes in Texas. Last week, a Texas law, SB8, went into effect that bans abortions past six weeks. It’s now the most restrictive law in the country, and SB8 even goes as far as to deputize family members, neighbors or strangers to sue anyone who helps someone get abortion care. The Supreme Court, stacked with three of […]
Last Week This Morning: 1M cases
1M cases. Over one million total COVID-19 cases have now been reported in Arizona, yet Gov. Doug Ducey continues to make things worse, blocking mask and vaccine mandates in order to score political points. If Arizona had proper leadership and higher vaccination rates, this could have been preventable. Don’t miss this perspective from an Arizona nurse who has worked through the […]
Last Week This Morning: Hunger Games – Arizona Edition
Ducey’s war on children continues. As school districts across the state continue to defy the law banning mask mandates, Ducey has decided to deny schools federal COVID-19 relief money if they require masking once the law goes into effect. Ducey’s horrific move to dangle much needed funding that he has until this point, sat on, has received widespread […]
Last Week This Morning: What we already knew
Defying Ducey. School districts across the state are refusing to comply with Gov. Ducey’s ban on mask mandates and will require masks to be worn by students on campuses as COVID-19 cases rise. The three major universities in the state, ASU, UA, and NAU will also enforce masking, and many education groups are suing the state over the law that […]
Wait, What’s a BIF?
The Senate just passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill (also known as the BIF), with spending on roads, bridges, rail, water and electricity transmission. Next up: voting to authorize the reconciliation bill, which includes universal pre-K, clean energy, the child tax credit, vision and hearing coverage in Medicare, citizenship for DACA recipients and essential workers, and […]
Last Week This Morning: Phoenix PD under investigation
Ducey’s mask ban. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, a group of over 150 doctors is urging Gov. Doug Ducey to require masks in public schools. Ducey has recently doubled down in defense of a new state law that prohibits locally elected school boards from enforcing mask mandates or vaccination requirements. Numerous school districts across the state of Arizona are flouting this […]
Last Week This Morning: Will Sinema Tank the Entire Agenda?
Moral Monday. The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested alongside over thirty Arizona community leaders outside of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s office on Monday. The arrests happened after activists refused to leave Sinema’s office until she heard constituent concerns about the filibuster rule, following a rally and march attended by hundreds. Speakers at the rally called on Senator Sinema to end the […]