Zoning Drives Educational Inequality. Our land-use system is based off practices like redlining and racial covenants. It must be reformed to achieve better outcomes for our community not only in education but physical and mental health too! @TCFdotorg https://t.co/nf7h8zcfxU
I’m writing this as a spotlight & as a call to action. It’s all hands on deck. The same urgency and coordination I’m seeing from our highest levels of gov for forest fires, I’d like to see also for the communities on fire from gun violence. No matter the district or jurisdiction.
And it’s nowhere near enough. In addition to the impact on victims and their surviving families, one of the most demoralizing parts of all this has been the impact on the people fighting to prevent gun violence.
We're organizing community safety town halls; securing historic investments in mental health / addiction recovery; supporting youth with after school activities and mentorship; advancing every intervention & prevention strategy we can think of and that neighbors ask us to pursue.
These are just a fraction of the shootings we've experienced in just a few months. My team is working 'round the clock to support survivor families -- connecting them to mental health services, legal aid, rental assistance, childcare. The violence has upended everything for them.
This has been such a heavy year. I haven’t felt this overwhelmed since starting on the council in 2020 in the depths of a global pandemic. That’s actually what it feels like right now: another pandemic. Except instead of a virus, we're fighting unrelenting gun violence.
Grants are available to help YOU lower your energy bills! Through the #NSD Weatherization Assistance Program, we can help you repair or replace major appliances like your AC or water heater for FREE. Yes, you read that right - FREE. 💸 Learn more here: https://t.co/TO3TSqUm8e
The Arizona Department of Health Services is offering free drinking water lead screening opportunities for schools and child care facilities as part of a nationwide program. https://t.co/UPkOADKQEQ
Back to 29 strong! Congratulations Quantá Crews on being unanimously appointed to House of Representatives to fill our vacant LD26 seat! Stay tuned for details on Representative Crews’ swearing in. @RevQMarie fills the seat opened when @FlavioGBravo was appointed to the Senate.
All three candidates for Legislative District 26 House vacancy have completed their questionnaires on the 2020 and 2022 Elections. #ProtectingDemocracy
Students from Palo Verde Elementary visited APS in Casa Grande to learn about electrical safety. Employees discussed safety, both inside and outside the home, and how APS safely supplies power to their homes.
Partnerships are what bring community together. Happy to have been a part of building Acacia Heights to provide a home for Clay and others like him. This is why I do the work that I do!
Formerly Unhoused Mechanic Tries Out Autonomous Driving https://t.co/cVTReYPgPq via @YouTube
It has been the honor of a lifetime serving the people of LD30 and now LD26. As I begin my next journey to support the people of Arizona, I extend my sincere thanks to everyone fighting to make reality better in Arizona. 💜
Reminder: Phoenix is currently opposing my striker on SB 1161 which would expedite construction of *specifically* low-income housing along public transit. The city is shutting down mobile home parks *and* fighting the development of new places for low-income families to live.