OK, So We Can’t Let Catherine Miranda Win in LD27
In early July, Progress Arizona commissioned a poll in Legislative District 27, which largely covers South Phoenix. We were focused on the August 4 primary for state representative, in which Catherine Miranda is challenging the two incumbent representatives, Reginald Bolding and Diego Rodriguez. Where to begin with Catherine Miranda? Despite being a Democrat, she endorsed […]
Last Week This Morning: This is really scary
Things are really scary. Arizona has become the first state in the nation to activate “crisis care” standards for treating coronavirus patients. Although no hospitals are currently triaging who gets which level of care, they could begin doing so soon. Crisis upon crisis. The $600 unemployment payments currently keeping many Arizonans afloat will expire on July 26, deepening the […]
Last Week This Morning: Time for a $4,000 vacation
Trump comes to AZ. President Trump’s Arizona trip featured lots in the way of misinformation and racist rhetoric and little in the way of COIVD-19 protections. Another nightmare, this time in Tucson. Tucson police brutally murdered Carlos Adrian Ingram Lopez, then kept it secret for two months. How Arizona lost control of the epidemic. Arizona’s botched coronavirus response is an outrage. Ah, yes, this is just the time. Martha […]
Last Week This Morning: Mask up, AZ
Mask up, Arizona. Please. Governor Ducey finally, finally allowed cities and counties to require masks, but still won’t put a mask requirement in place for the state as a whole. Good news from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s “arbitrary and capricious” attempts to end DACA, as well as deciding that employers could not discriminate against […]
Last Week This Morning: “I’ve run out of tears”
Civilian oversight yes, defunding the police no. The Phoenix City Council voted last week to fully fund civilian oversight of the police, but also moved forward on a $25 million increase in the police budget. “Not viewed negatively within the Phoenix police department.” The Phoenix police department is banning chokeholds, despite the police union insisting that if they don’t have a problem with the technique, […]
Last Week This Morning: Peril, pain & possibility
A moment of tremendous pain, peril and possibility. The last week has seen the largest, most widespread protests in American history – even during a massive pandemic that has kept many at home. Trump’s authoritarian instincts. At a certain point, playacting becomes all too real. Demanding justice in Arizona. Elected officials are pushing for an investigation into Dion Johnson’s killing at the hands of Department of […]
Last Week This Morning: Divest from police
Another young person gone. Dion Johnson was killed by Department of Public Safety officers in Phoenix early on Monday morning. Death after death at the hands of the Phoenix police. The Phoenix police department is among the deadliest in the country. A pattern of escalation. Over the last week, police have consistently escalated violence against protestors and journalists all over the country, including in Phoenix. It’s not […]
Last Week This Morning: Sine die at last
Trouble ahead for our unelected senator. A poll released this week showed that Senator McSally is trailing Mark Kelly by 13 points, and the GOP is getting very nervous. Sine die at last. The Arizona House of Representatives finally adjourned on Friday after passing their top priority: a bill making it harder to sue businesses that get workers or customers sick. “We fear that a […]
Last Week This Morning: An unprecedented failure of leadership
Re-opening, without a plan. Trump’s handling of the pandemic is the most profound and complete failure of presidential leadership in modern history, and it’s left the rest of the country is an impossible bind. Doctors without Borders comes to the Southwest. They just started an aid effort on the Navajo Nation — their first ever in the United States. […]