Yes to approving the interstate agreement. No to the plan to divvy up the cuts. To understand the flaws, follow the money.
Category Archives: State and local
Stopping the next teachers strike
Make it clear that public employee strikes are illegal and carry a penalty.
Legislature should put an end to ASU’s property tax dodges
Brnovich isn’t confused or confusing in his attempt to put an end to ASU facilitating private businesses escaping property taxes. But legislation would be a better cure.
State of the State: The No-Agenda Ducey
A quiet period of small-ball politics may have some merit. But it diminishes Ducey as a force.
This session will be all about the money
For the first time in a decade, the state is rolling in dough. Budgets are actually more difficult when there is lots of money.
The last advice McSally should take
Stop taking advice. Particularly about politics. The politics of the 2020 election are impossible to figure out.
A different approach to criminal justice reform
Giving judges and prison officials more power shouldn’t be the answer.
Not that Lieutenant Governor thing again
There’s a better way to reform gubernatorial succession than creating a new, superfluous political office.
Make Clean Elections the campaign finance cop
A flawed judge’s decision should occasion a fresh discussion at the Legislature about eliminating the dual enforcement system for campaign finance.
Will climate change solve itself?
While there is no political appetite for drastic government mandates, the economy will probably naturally decarobonize, as it has been.