After a faulty state, Senate President Steve Yarbrough is headed in the right direction in changing the composition of the redistricting commission by adding more independents.
Category Archives: State and local
Prop. 301 extension tantalizingly close
A two-thirds vote to extend the Prop. 301 education sales tax actually has some life in the legislature.
Tobin, activists claim to divine the energy future
But it is captive ratepayers who will take the risk.
Arizona love on statehood day
A shout out to leaders who exemplify Arizona: Jon Kyl, Alfredo Gutierrez, Jerry Colangelo, Lou Witzeman.
Budget deal continues the sleepwalk toward a day of reckoning
The “compromise” of more spending on everything can’t continue indefinitely.
Flake, McCain wrong on Nunes memo
There was stuff going on in the Trump-Russia investigation that the American people should know.
Don’t fight a voucher war in Arizona
The private school voucher expansion that was referred isn’t worth the ballot fight and risk. The Legislature should just repeal it.
Move cautiously on tax conformity
Paradoxically, federal income tax cuts will increase state tax collections. But the state shouldn’t be in a rush to give it back to taxpayers, as some conservative groups are urging.
What’s wrong with some good news about Arizona schools?
The furious reaction to an ad campaign touting good news about Arizona K-12 education raises a question that deserves more than a superficial ponder.
Blame the shutdown on the filibuster rule
The real outrage is that the federal government shutdown even though a bipartisan majority of the Senate voted to keep it open. Yet that real outrage has been lost in the partisan blame game.