An Open Thread -
From time to time, maybe you would all appreciate an aggregator of sorts for conversation and posting AZ or personal news you don't have time to actually write a full diary on, or to "pimp" your published work anywhere. I would, so I am putting one up.
If you like the idea, follow me over the great orange wash to the dusty desert road on the other side...
Here's a story that will break your heart...
"two more people — including 23-year-old leukemia patient Courtney Parham — join the 98 others standing before the Brewer death panel":
While Brewer Gives Corporations A Tax Cut, Another Arizonan Joins The 98 Waiting For Transplant Funding (Think Progress)
While Courtney’s life is on the line, Brewer eagerly signed tax cuts for businesses into law last week — cuts that will cost Arizona $538 million by 2018. Yet the governor has dragged her feet in offering the mere $1.36 million needed to save Courtney and her cohort’s lives, and she has consistently ignored 26 possible funding solutions
On a better note, with SB1225, Kyrsten Sinema is working against human trafficking and thinks her bill comes up for a vote on Tuesday.
And on a personal note, my 20 year old grandson is in Reception awaiting transfer to US Army Boot Camp in MO on Tuesday, and he called home today feeling happy with himself. And it's raining, let's hope it stays that way.
See you tomorrow night at the YWCA on Bonita for Hightower and Grijalva and the new PDA chapter.