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The Political Notebook 5.20.2025

Is it a tax cut or avoiding a tax increase? It’s too early for Arizona Democrats to be crying in the beer about the 2026 election.

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This entry was posted in International and national, State and local on May 20, 2025 by robertrobb.

The Trump endgame: managed trade

The flow of goods across borders will be decided more by agreements between political leaders, and less by the market forces of comparative advantage and consumer preferences.

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This entry was posted in International and national on May 14, 2025 by robertrobb.

The Trump blitzkrieg has been a political loser

The body politic might want change, but not chaos.

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This entry was posted in International and national on May 7, 2025 by robertrobb.

The sorry state of state government politics, Part II

Is Karrin Taylor Robson faux MAGA or a faux traditional Republican?

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This entry was posted in State and local on April 30, 2025 by robertrobb.

The sorry state of state government politics

The brouhaha over a funding shortfall for DD programs is a measure of political incompetence all around.

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This entry was posted in State and local on April 23, 2025 by robertrobb.

For congressional Republicans, will enough ever be enough?

Do any of them have a “sacred honor” to pledge?

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This entry was posted in International and national on April 16, 2025 by robertrobb.

Tariff tantrums and contradictions

As in geopolitics, the Trump effect will cause a realignment in trade.

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This entry was posted in International and national on April 9, 2025 by robertrobb.

Democrats struggle over an opposition strategy

Trump generates his own opposition. Don’t do things that narrow a potentially broad opposition coalition.

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This entry was posted in International and national on March 26, 2025 by robertrobb.

Let voters decide about an early ballot cutoff

The trade-off between the speed of knowing the outcome and the convenience of dropping off an early ballot is appropriate to submit to the entire body politic.

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This entry was posted in Ballot Measures, State and local on March 19, 2025 by robertrobb.

The hard and wrong Prop. 123 renewal

GOP legislators support only half of the school choice equation.

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This entry was posted in Ballot Measures, State and local on March 12, 2025 by robertrobb.

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