I received a report from one of my top correspondents who attended yesterday’s meeting of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. John Huppenthal made an appearance. No word on whether he tried to nail a campaign banner to the wall. Anyway, Huppenthal tried to sell attendees on a Mandarin immersion program. It’s early in the morning, you’ll have [...]
My chief frustration with Mark Stegeman in this whole ethnic studies mess is his assumption that Tom Horne and John Huppenthal have any incentive to act like reasonable people who can be bargained with. So, what we have now is this plan for a “multicultural cirriculum.” They’ve put a first rate guy in charge of [...]
My occasional summary of things I missed talking about last week only involves one thing, and it’s a biggie: the release of the study of TUSD’s ethnic studies program. I’ve been reading a book called The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, by James Martin, SJ. The section I read last night dealt with the concept [...]
It’s Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for the Fourth of July, right? It’s the day we celebrate when Pancho Villa and Montezuma gave Mexico its independence from Texas. I’ve been taking the new Tom Horne and John Huppenthal approved ethnic studies elective. I’m learning all sorts of cool stuff.
An argument you hear from folks who want to ditch Clean Elections is that the far right has been empowered by the system, and the only way the calm, cool heads of the country club wing of the party can once again assert control when they are back in charge of the money to Republican [...]
I didn’t say much about the TUSD board meeting the other night, and I really should have. There were other solid accounts of the meeting, though, like the one that Mari Herreras wrote on the Weekly’s blog. I got a call last night from a friend who is supportive of the ethnic studies cirriculum, but [...]
Tom Horne on a group of pro-ethnic studies protesters, from the Arizona Daily Star: “The raza studies program teaches irrational mob behavior as a matter of habit,” Horne said, although he acknowledged on Thursday that he didn’t know if any among the protesters had taken a Mexican-American studies course. Unfortunately this is typical of the [...]
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
I’ve had a chance to look over the “finding” that Tom Horne released at the last minute that Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program is in violation of the law he helped draft. What struck me is that there is nothing new in the ten page document, which begs the question, why bother to [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
This from a bit about Terry Goddard’s actions against Colorado City in yesterday’s Yellow Sheet. Italics mine: Still, Goddard likely wouldn’t have time to push for disincorporation or pursue Colorado City prosecutions while he serves as AG. Nominating petitions to qualify for the ballot are due on May 26, and by filing Goddard will have [...]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
A bit of Southwestern wisdom for Randy Pullen (one that he may not appreciate because of the language it’s in): En boca cerrada, no entran moscas. Pullen held a hastilly organized press conference, the purpose of which was to repeat charges from last May that Terry Goddard and Kyrsten Sinema are in violation of the [...]
