Arizona AG Mark Brnovich was very lucky to lose this lawsuit.
Sinema’s border surge is better than Ducey’s
Additional aslyum officers and immigration judges will do more to reduce disorder at the border than posses recruited from other states.
Time to end Ducey’s COVID emergency powers
Ducey is asserting emergency authority not to take action to protect public health, but, as in the case with ASU, prevent others from taking action they think advisable for public health. And he’s gotten way too comfortable with ruling by decree.
AZ House Dems all in on pork
In Congress, official pork is back, and the timing is surreal.
Budget bills violate state Constitution
Stuffing “budget reconcilation bills” with scores of policy changes violates the state Constitution’s one-subject rule for all legislation except the feed bill.
Biden budget’s big economic gamble
There’s no mandate for a spending, taxation and borrowing blowout.
Legislature should override Ducey’s vetoes
It’s time for the Legislature to defend its standing as a co-equal branch of government.
Good tax reform, imprudent budget plan
Moving toward a flat-tax would improve the trajectory of the state’s economy. But the budget proposal skirts the edge of sustainability for state programs.
Why hasn’t school-choice competition produced more for teachers?
School-choice competition is producing more for students. But it should also be producing more for teachers. A recent study documents the extent to which that isn’t happening.
Ducey’s questionable Back to Work program
The state shouldn’t be the business of offering wage bonuses, or arbitary and unfair benefits to some job seekers but not others.