Given how deeply Phoenix’s pension programs are underwater, modest spending restraint to prioritize reducing pension debt is a prudent course.
Category Archives: State and local
If Arizona legalizes pot, potency should be regulated
If an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana doesn’t include the authority for an independent regulator to limit potency, Gov. Ducey and the Legislature should step in.
Ducey’s Nike slap is doubly disturbing
The state shouldn’t be in the incentives game. But if it is, the rule of law requires that they be dispensed without regard to whether the governor agrees with the political views of the company.
Hey D.C., Arizona has school choice
A national study hails the performance of Arizona students, but overlooks the most likely reason for it.
On redistricting, no rule by judicial philosopher-kings, for a change
The court’s majority got it right, but the dissent illustrates the problem.
Ducey is right about mission creep at the Corporation Commission
But will he try to do anything about it?
Arizona’s wrong turn on capital funding for schools
An auditor general’s report illustrates what a mistake it was to have the state take over capital funding for schools.
Don’t like APS? How about some competition?
The combination of dislike for APS and distrust of the Arizona Corporation Commission might rekindle the discussion of electricity deregulation in Arizona.
Rule by state AGs isn’t what the founders intended
More and more federal policy is being determined through lawsuits brought by state attorneys general, often with a partisan hue.
Ducey’s criminal justice reform veto was a mistake
If the Legislature is a dead end for even modest and sensible reforms, a far-reaching ballot initiative may erupt.