Tucson Progressive: Lefty News and Commentary

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Sunday August 07, 2011 · 1:28 PM PDT

2011/08/07 · 13:28

My Tucson Progressive blog on the TucsonCitizen.com includes almost 400 blog posts on a wide range of lefty topics, plus hundreds of links to other blogs and news outlets.

The blog's sheer volume necessitated a bit of reorganization, since even I was having trouble finding stories I knew I had written.

Now organized by topic, everyone (hopefully) can find news, background information, and commentary on life and politics in Tucson, Arizona.

Most Recent posts and links to other blogs can be found here

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Saturday August 06, 2011 · 12:04 PM PDT

2011/08/06 · 12:04

According to Michael Moore, the beginning of the end was 30 years ago yesterday. That was the day the middle class died.

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Saturday July 30, 2011 · 4:10 AM PDT

2011/07/30 · 04:10

Medicare is the Solution… Not the Problem!

Come help celebrate Medicare's 46th birthday by demonstrating your support. Join PDA Tucson for this important event.

WHEN: Saturday July 30
WHERE: NE Corner of Speedway and Campbell in Tucson
TIME: 10 am to noon

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Friday July 29, 2011 · 5:30 PM PDT

2011/07/29 · 17:30

Forth-six years ago on July 30, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law and created Medicare and Medicaid. Enacting universal, single-payer healthcare for the country's elderly and indigent was a long struggle that began during Harry Truman's presidency.

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Sunday June 19, 2011 · 5:17 AM PDT

2011/06/19 · 05:17

Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Kozachik is not only a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is guy, he’s also apparently very frugal.

Each City Council member receives the same amount of money to run his or her ward office, and sometimes they have money left over at the end of the fiscal year. This year Kozachik has an extra $75,000 from his own budget, and he proposed a plan to spend the $75,000 to fill potholes in Ward 6. (Yippee!)

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Saturday June 18, 2011 · 5:00 AM PDT

2011/06/18 · 05:00

Last week, Governor Jan Brewer called the Arizona Legislature into special session to make a one-word change in state law which would allow extension of unemployment benefits to the chronically unemployed in Arizona-- at no cost to the state.

Legislators argued and grandstanded for two days and, in the end, changed nothing. As the Arizona Daily Star said, Legislators showed "indifference to struggling Arizonans."

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Friday June 17, 2011 · 7:43 AM PDT

2011/06/17 · 07:43

In 2006 voters approved a package of road improvements, bus pullout improvements, and bicycle path improvements and the creation of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to oversee the projects.

RTA construction projects have been popping up all over town-- like the bus pullouts at Fort Lowell and Campbell, which seemed to take forever to complete. Whew, glad that one's done, but look for more cumbersome transportation "fixes" in the near future, as "planners" implement multiple clusterf**ks on our roadways.

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Friday June 10, 2011 · 8:58 AM PDT

2011/06/10 · 08:58

Although I am politically on the far left, I enjoy reading the right wing blogs. I guess I take after my Mom, who is an 86-year-old, life-long Republican.

Mom says she watches both FOX News and the Daily Show for the same reason: They always have something different to say, unlike the network news stations which air slightly different versions of the same stories.

Mom's got that right. FOX News (AKA FAUX News) resides in an almost fact-free universe, and the Daily Show is comedy, which is supposed to be fake news. Corporate news, on the other hand, is written from press releases provided to them by other multi-national corporations (hence the name "corporate news".)

I read the right wing blogs because they always have something different to say.

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Friday June 10, 2011 · 7:23 AM PDT

2011/06/10 · 07:23

The Tequila Party-- the Latino answer song to the now-infamous Tea Party and the lesser-known Coffee Party-- held its national kick-off last Saturday in Tucson, Arizona.

Locally, the group is spearheaded by TucsonCitizen.com blogger Dee Dee Garcia (AKA Dee Dee Blase and Dee Dee Blase Garcia) from Somos Republicanos (AKA Arizona Hispanic Republicans).

Officially, one of the stated goals of the Tequila Party is to get out the Latino vote. The Latino population is growing in numbers nationwide-- and particularly in the Southwest-- but their voting record is dismal.

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Let Kozachik spend his money in his Ward: I want my potholes fixed

AZ Republicans deny extension of unemployment benefits: Hold them accountable!

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Will the Tequila Party succeed in building Latino political power?