Trump has been irresponsible in the exercise of his free speech rights. But it is also irresponsible to depict Trump as a threat to the free speech rights of others. Or to compare him to Stalin.
Category Archives: State and local
Interesting splits over warrantless snooping
Arizona’s congressional delegation was divided over adding a warrant requirement to look at data collected about U.S. citizens or residents during a foreign intelligence investigation, although not along party lines.
Caution and skepticism about Ducey’s budget
Gov. Ducey’s budget relies on three fiscal maneuvers that lawmakers should question, but probably won’t.
Podcast: A new Ducey in the State of State?
Ducey regains ball control on education funding
Ducey’s education funding plan is probably enough to keep an education-business coalition to pass a tax increase he would oppose from forming.
Ducey channels his inner … Bill Clinton?
In his State of the State address, Ducey offered a colorless politics, largely drained of ideological content, similar to the pivot Bill Clinton made after the 1994 election.
Arizona Supreme Court becomes a many splintered thing
For a court generally bent on unanimity, a case involving warrantless GPS tracking of a suspected drug trafficker produces four separate opinions.
Business tax breaks aren’t victimless
Even when commercial development occurs on land previously tax-exempt, such as the State Farm complex on ASU land at Tempe Town Lake, allowing it to remain tax-exempt robs other taxing jurisdictions of the benefits of commercial property growth.
Ducey puts compassionate conservatism front and center
In his annual report, there’s not much of Ducey the crusading conservative reformer who ran for election in 2014.
Some people genuinely believe in the GOP tax reform bill
McCain and Flake aren’t “putting party above country” in voting for the GOP tax reform bill. And what’s the case, moral or economic, for taking 45 percent of the next dollar anyone earns, however rich?