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California medical marijuana crackdown: Is it Tom Horne’s fault?

Late last week US attorneys announced a crackdown on the “large, for-profit medical marijuana industry” in California. From CNN… [The attorneys sent] letters of warning to landlords and lien holders … Continue reading →

October 11, 2011 · 11 Comments

Since when do Utah right-wingers and FOX News get to tell Pima County what to do? (video)

[tnivideo caption=”Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s Press Conference after the Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords” credit=”MSNBC”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccY9lNRiUWg[/tnivideo] After the Tucson massacre and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords early this month, Pima … Continue reading →

January 26, 2011 · 15 Comments

Medical marijuana: Is Arizona a ‘nanny state’ or a ‘free market’ state?

Arizona bureaucrats are wringing their hands over the implementation of Prop 203– the medical marijuana law that voters approved in November 2010. The roadblocks that bureaucrats like Pima County Attorney … Continue reading →

December 6, 2010 · 26 Comments

Medical marijuana: Is the Arizona Bar Association obstructing justice?

The Arizona Bar Association recently announced that Arizona lawyers may not be able to assist would-be clients who have a legal problem related to the state’s new medical marijuana law. … Continue reading →

December 4, 2010 · 26 Comments

It’s your turn to speak out: Convention hotel & medical marijuana zoning on City Council agenda

Tuesday’s Mayor and Council Meeting will be one of the liveliest meetings they have had for months. Both the Convention Center hotel project and proposed medical marijuana zoning are on … Continue reading →

October 25, 2010 · 4 Comments

LaWall continues campaign against medical marijuana

Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall and other attorneys from her office are continuing their campaign against medical marijuana, which is on the November 2 ballot as Prop 203. LaWall and … Continue reading →

October 10, 2010 · 19 Comments

Tucsonans can join the Rally to Restore Sanity or the March to Keep Fear Alive– without leaving the Old Pueblo

I have been seriously jonesing to go to Washington, DC for the progressive rallies being held in October. After all I have a hybrid car and at least one person … Continue reading →

October 7, 2010 · 7 Comments

Safe Park, downtown Tucson

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

The Living Economy event was very informative; we had a great time hob-nobbing. My husband Jim is a small business owner and a member of Local First Arizona. I have owned two small businesses in the past– Powers/Queen Associates and Wind Dancer Design. We support Local First Arizona and buying/investing locally. We believe that supporting local small businesses with low-interest loans through a public/private partnership between a public bank and community banks and credit unions is the sustainable route to improving our local economy. Trickle down economics doesn’t work; it’s time for new ideas.

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.

We are the 99%.

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.

PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.

It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.

Despite the sweltering heat, Jim and I had a great time at the Labor Day Picnic. We collected a lot of Clean Elections $5 donations and signatures. Here I am with LD9 chair Michael Dues.

There have been many lively debates in the Arizona House in 2018. This team of House Democrats fought for consumer protections and fought against risky financial deals in a “regulatory sandbox.” (Pictured are Reps. Mitzi Epstein, Kelli Butler, Athena Salman, Pamela Powers Hannley, Ken Clark and Isela Blanc.)

PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.

This is a broken sink in the Ladies’ Room at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. One of the elevators also was broken. It’s time to fix Arizona government.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

Desconocido (unknown)

Protesting cuts to education

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.

John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

Rev. Ron Phares and Pamela Powers Hannley

Jim and I were part of a contingent of Unitarian Universalists who came up from Tucson. Here I am with Rev. Ron Phares from the Mountain Vista UU Church in my district. (Jim is photobombing us.)

A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

The Tucson Progressive: Pamela J. Powers

I stand on the side of Love. I believe in kindness to all creatures on Earth and the inherent self-worth of all individuals–not just people who agree with me or look like me.

Widespread economic and social injustice prompted me to become a candidate for the Arizona House, representing Legislative District 9 in the 2016 election.

My platform focused on economic reforms to grow Arizona’s economy, establish a state-based public bank, fix our infrastructure, fully fund public education, grow local small businesses and community banks, and put people back to work at good-paying jobs.

In the Arizona House, I was a strong voice for fiscal responsibility a moratorium on corporate tax breaks until the schools were fully funded, increased cash assistance to the poor, expansion of maternal healthcare benefits, equal rights, choice, unions, education at all levels and protecting our water supply.

After three terms, I retired from the Arizona Legislature in January 2023 but will continue to blog and produce my podcast “A View from the Left Side.”

Tucson Progressive

Category Archives: Barbara LaWall

California medical marijuana crackdown: Is it Tom Horne’s fault?

Since when do Utah right-wingers and FOX News get to tell Pima County what to do? (video)

Medical marijuana: Is Arizona a ‘nanny state’ or a ‘free market’ state?

Medical marijuana: Is the Arizona Bar Association obstructing justice?

It’s your turn to speak out: Convention hotel & medical marijuana zoning on City Council agenda

LaWall continues campaign against medical marijuana

Tucsonans can join the Rally to Restore Sanity or the March to Keep Fear Alive– without leaving the Old Pueblo

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