Opening: Gov. Doug Ducey signs the teacher raises into the budget.
1:15 – All about the teacher walkout and Ducey’s plan.
7:15 – Initiative to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for education.
10:50 – TUSD homeowners get the short end of the stick in the budget.
15:20 – Snowflake Luis found letters against the teachers upsetting.
21:45 – Get to know a teacher.
24:38 – Fitz’s letter(s) of the week.
Fitz will be enjoying “Keep the Change” at The Loft.
Luis suggests you check out Bill Hader in “Barry” on HBO.
Sarah is taking some time off to go on a genealogy adventure.
Sarah’s out this week so it’s up to Fitz and Luis to talk Arizona education, No More Deaths clashing with Border Patrol, and the government shutdown.
Listen and check out the show notes below.
0:30 – Where in the world is Sarah Garrecht Gassen?
1:46 – Diane Douglas wants $400 million for teachers.
5:30 – The Arizona Education Project is spending money to tell people education in the state is not bad.
10:20 – Gov. Doug Ducey spending more on PR.
12:20 – Fitz talks about his Border Patrol cartoon.
13:30 – Border Patrol agents accused of vandalizing water stations in the desert.
16:05 – No More Deaths clashes with the Border Patrol.
22:24 – The government shutdown and Trump’s immigration policy.
28:00 – Fitz’s letter of the week.
30:00 – What we’re doing this weekend.
This week: Joe Arpaio’s Senate run, DACA complications, Medicaid work requirements and Rich Rodriguez.
1:00 – Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants to be a Senator. This puts him on a collision course with Kelli Ward and Martha McSally.
6:50 – Sarah reads a snippet of the editorial board’s repudiation of Arpaio as a candidate.
10:00 – The latest on DACA and McSally’s co-sponsored immigration bill, the Securing America’s Future Act.
16:40 – The Trump administration will allow states to impose a work requirement for Medicaid and Arizona is ready to go.
22:40 – Fitz’s letter of the week.
25:23 – Sports editor Ryan Finley will address questions about the Sports section and its coverage of Rich Rodriguez in a Sunday column.
27:00 – On being a coach and being a jerk.
28:27 – Did you know the devil wears Prada?
29:54 – A preview of Sunday’s editorial pages.
Luis wants to check out “Follies” at The Loft.
Fitz (again) urges everyone to check out the Tucson Jazz Festival.
Welcome to The Point Being podcast for the week of Sept. 22.
Conservative columnist Jonathan Hoffman joins the Star editorial team — editor Sarah Garrecht Gassen, cartoonist David Fizsimmons and editorial writer Luis Carrasco — to talk politics.
This week’s podcast includes discussion of Amazon’s thanks-but-no-thanks to the Tucson saguaro, what’s going on the editorial pages and health care, health care, health care.
1:42 – The Amazon saguaro saga continues.
4:50 – Gov. Ducey’s push to remove criminal history questionfrom state job applications.
10:02 – David Fitzsimmons is back from vacation. He talks Cartoon of the Week and how his cartoons sometimes talk back.
12:50 – What’s are star letter writers excited about this week? Two words: health care. Be it the proposed Medicaid work requirement (13:00) or the Cassidy-Graham bill (20:30).
32:46 – Letter writer Sherry Steele chimes in on health care issues for poor Arizonans.
38:47 – Preview of the weekend’s editorial pages.
Sarah shows them all off by talking about social science researcher Brené Brown. Here’s the TED Talk she mentions.