Ducey’s education funding plan is probably enough to keep an education-business coalition to pass a tax increase he would oppose from forming.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Ducey channels his inner … Bill Clinton?
In his State of the State address, Ducey offered a colorless politics, largely drained of ideological content, similar to the pivot Bill Clinton made after the 1994 election.
Arizona Supreme Court becomes a many splintered thing
For a court generally bent on unanimity, a case involving warrantless GPS tracking of a suspected drug trafficker produces four separate opinions.
Business tax breaks aren’t victimless
Even when commercial development occurs on land previously tax-exempt, such as the State Farm complex on ASU land at Tempe Town Lake, allowing it to remain tax-exempt robs other taxing jurisdictions of the benefits of commercial property growth.
Does Trump believe his National Security Strategy? Does it matter?
The white paper says that the chief threat to the United States is geopolitical competition with China and Russia. Trump barely mentioned it in passing.