Hobbs and the legislature keep spending virtually all of any surplus in the very next budget year.
Category Archives: State and local
Biggs, Musk, and the disgusting abomination
Is Biggs exercising independent judgment or just deferring to Trump?
Prop. 123 extension: The case for an education lobby initiative
The GOP school choice-higher distribution combo is blatantly unconstitutional.
Yee boards a MAGA train
Arguing that the ESA program has too much oversight, rather than too little, won’t be politically fruitful.
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.
The sorry state of state government politics, Part II
Is Karrin Taylor Robson faux MAGA or a faux traditional Republican?
The sorry state of state government politics
The brouhaha over a funding shortfall for DD programs is a measure of political incompetence all around.
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.
The hard and wrong Prop. 123 renewal
GOP legislators support only half of the school choice equation.
Give the market a chance on housing
Only freeing up supply and demand can produce the volume and diversity of housing stock required to broadly restore affordability. Politically, it’s worth holding out for.