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Patt's avatar
May 2Edited

re: Vouchers

It's been clear for years, that the R majority's ideology is more important than Arizonans' preferences. Arizonans voted 2:1 against a voucher expansion. Republican lawmakers instituted them anyway. Now they want to enshrine them in the constitution. If only the folks who voted against vouchers, would vote against their district republican, we might get a legislature that deals with actual issues instead of right wing doctrine.

BTW. How many private schools are in Benson?

"For the 2025 school year, there is 1 private school serving 8 students in Benson, AZ (there are 5 public schools, serving 1,300 public students)."

https://www.privateschoolreview.com/arizona/benson

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Drew Ryan's avatar

I'm not a paid subscriber for the Water Agenda (sorry Christian) and can't comment on that newsletter, but I'm a water resources student who just finished up a big paper on CAP and a lot of its history, including the Colorado River Compact and the tribes' exclusion from it. The language of the compact explicitly said that tribal water rights under Winters v. United States were not altered by it. So the compact negotiators knew the legal position they were in but that it wouldn't functionally matter.

Another interesting (read: not great) bit of history has to do with the Navajo Generating Station that provides almost all of the electricity to CAP pumps. The Secretary of the Interior under Kennedy and Johnson was looking at two more hydropower dams on the Colorado River for CAP's energy needs, but that got pushback from Colorado ranchers were concerned they would lose upper basin water, and from environmentalists because it would've flooded the Grand Canyon. Those same environmentalists supported mining coal from the Navajo reservation and burning it for the NGS because it meant leaving the Grand Canyon alone.

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Christian Sawyer's avatar

Thanks for writing in. Yes, with water, it seems the strategy has often been "delay the inevitable". It continues today. I'd be interested to read your paper if you want to share it: christian@arizonaagenda.com

It will be interesting to see if one day we're powering the CAP with solar-over-canal tech. I'm sure I'll write more on the GRIC's solar canal project in a future edition of the Water Agenda.

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Douglas J. Wolf's avatar

May be I am missing something but if I went study in Paris and engaged in protests supporting an enemy of France, I would expect that I would be sent packing fairly quickly. If foreign students want to protest Israel's war in Gaza by taking over buildings etc they can expect that they will shown the door. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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Algo Mas's avatar

Maybe you are missing something.

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Jennifer McDowell's avatar

But….they aren’t just revoking VISAs from students who engaged in unlawful protests. Did you read the article? Students on the list included those with a speeding violation and a dismissed fishing ticket. You don’t find that problematic? Why would a foreign student apply for a masters degree in mechanical engineering at U of A if one mistaken illegal left turn resulted in abandoning their degree? What will the cost be to state universities across the country if they have zero international students paying the full freight of tuition costs?

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Douglas J. Wolf's avatar

I don't believe anything in the media on first pass. If I were the government , I would not send back speeders or fishing violators, if that is in fact, true. The revenue loss should not be part of the discussion.

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Carolyn's avatar

Unless it Fox

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Douglas J. Wolf's avatar

Cheap shot. I listen to NPR and MSNBC to discern the enemy narrative daily.

BTW defending Maryland Man who wife sought a police protection order and was likely transporting illegals in Tennessee was not a good look for the progressives.

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Carolyn's avatar

Wow, okay. Have a good weekend.

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Carolyn's avatar

They should not be “shown the door” cruel and unusual punishment for speaking out when they are here LEGALLY. The Universities and local police should make those decisions not the immigration arm of the federal government.

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Douglas J. Wolf's avatar

They are guests, not citizens. Ergo, the rules are different.

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Carolyn's avatar

They are here legally and deserve due process or you think we should forego that too? Guest don’t have First Amendment rights? Don’t see that in the Constitution.

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Douglas J. Wolf's avatar

They are allowed in on a student visa which lays out their boundaries and they all sign it. They knew they were overstepping but did it anyway.

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Algo Mas's avatar

Another pet peeve...the media always refers to Chump "Doubling Down". Well, he doesn't "Double Down" with his money. He does it with yours. He is fickle, stubborn, and irrational. That says it all. Marco doesn't have a couch. He has a futon...like everybody in Florida.

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Carolyn's avatar

😂

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Carolyn's avatar

Education is one of American’s greatest exports. It ranks in the top 5. Why would this President cut off those funds if he is trying to build exports? If you lived through the Viet Nam war era, student of all colors, religions beliefs, ages and educations protested. Some legally some not so much today. My father was Vice President of the largest community college in the country and was late for dinner, quite late, as protestors blocked his way out of his office. The college chose not to press charges as they took free speech and the right to assemble at its face. That was a tense time. Went on for years. The Palestinian protests, while disruptive and expensive have been blowen out of proportion, in my opinion, by this administration in their quest to make America white again.

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