When is a new administratively set fee not a new administratively set fee?
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Taking Grijalva and his budget seriously
The budget resolution of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which Grijalva co-chairs, shows where Democrats would lead the country if they regain power.
Brnovich sums up Stanton’s mayorship
Stanton’s tenure as mayor was characterized by progressive gestures with much meat to them.
Senate budget resolution reveals dysfunction
A budget resolution shouldn’t be just a mechanism to avoid a filibuster, and shouldn’t be passed after the budget year has already begun.
State government needs a consumption tax increase
The lesson from the latest budget shortfall is that state government isn’t going to grow its way out of its current stagnation.
Trump acting less imperially than Obama
On DACA and cost-sharing subsidies, Trump is showing more respect for the constitutional limits on presidential power than Obama did.
For the last time, Arizona schools don’t stink
Despite a lack of funding, Arizona students score at the national average on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.
I told Paul Ryan not to do this
A Democratic television ad against Martha McSally doesn’t even mention her. It’s all an attack against Ryan, who cast himself as the villain in our campaign melodrama by agreeing to become House Speaker.
On tax reform, liberals win Round One
GOP needs to decide if tax reform is about growth, or is bound by redistributionist constraints.
Let the Prada Socialist alone
U.S. Senate notes: Run against the Sinema of today; Arizona isn’t Alabama; Ward isn’t doomed against Sinema.