Phoenix city hall says it’s a user fee. But it charges commercial transporters for things their passengers don’t use, and disproportionately for the things they do.
Category Archives: State and local
Move water to where people want to live
Small projected shortages in a distant future shouldn’t cause such a panic. Treating water more as a market commodity should be the next innovation in Arizona’s water future.
Are Democrats serious about impeachment?
If the goal is to create a broader consensus in favor of removing Trump, this isn’t the way to go about it.
Legislate, not litigate, more money for prison health care
If an “expert” report is right, that the principal problem is that the system is underfunded, there’s no answer to be found in a federal courtroom.
Quid pro quo or not, what Trump did was wrong
The defense of Trump’s Ukrainian call misses a larger point, as does the whitewash of the unseemly situation with the Bidens in the country.
As Obamacare stabilizes, GOP still doesn’t have a clue
Obamacare isn’t what was envisioned. But Republicans don’t have a credible alternative to Democratic proposals for ever greater government involvement in health care.
Biggs’ contracts a case of TDDS
Biggs is right that Democrats are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. But Biggs has come down with a case of Trump Derangement Derangement Syndrome.
Empty congressional posturing about Turkey and the Kurds
The monumental difference between being a member of Congress and commander in chief.
Three ideas to improve working conditions for teachers
To solve Arizona’s teacher shortage, pay has to be increased. But working conditions also need to be overhauled and improved. Here’s three ideas to do that.
A judge’s wayward last stand against Prop. 123
Judge Neil Wake’s political screed about education finance got a lot of things wrong.