Whether through conviction or political calculation, Sinema valued and protected the role of private sector investment capital.
Category Archives: State and local
Abortion, the Arizona Supreme Court, and the rule of law
The court didn’t decide abortion policy, it decided that the Legislature had. But Mayes asserts that she alone decides.
Get rid of retention elections for judges
Legislative Republicans seem willing to close a vulnerability to maintaining an independent judiciary. Democrats should join them.
Hobbs’s veto message inadvertently explains the need for the Arizona Starter Homes Act
Only a broad easing of supply-side constraints can move the needle on housing availability and affordability.
TikTok, U.S. Steel, and navigating our geopolitical challenge
Close markets to assertive authoritarians but not to democratic, capitalist allies.
Sinema, Haley, and the end of hope
At least for this election cycle.
Hobbs, GOP lawmakers, and illegal immigration
The lack of space to discuss what is reasonable and unreasonable for the state to do is another indication of how broken our political system has become.
Refer a simple, clean, permanent state trust distribution formula
Prop. 123’s expiration may be the scene of a train wreck in school finance.
Can’t anybody in Congress play the game of governing?
MAGA Republicans dismiss a rare opportunity to improve order at the border. Biden throws a wild pitch with a log-rolling supplemental.
The Political Notebook 1.31.2024
MAGA legislative hits and misses: per-mile taxes, DEI training, ESG investing, banks and politics.