For a court generally bent on unanimity, a case involving warrantless GPS tracking of a suspected drug trafficker produces four separate opinions.
Category Archives: State and local
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?
A two-step approach to education funding is better
A group of businessmen proposes going to the ballot with a big tax hike in 2020. That puts at risk funding the schools already have.
Dark money disclosure isn’t black and white
A proposed Tempe charter amendment/ordinance and a statewide initiative requires independent expenditure campaigns to report the “original source” of their funding. That’s not always clear.
Do the political rules apply to Donald Trump?
I try to explain Trump’s political allure to my son. I do not succeed.
Sinema is running against Trump, whether she wants to or not
Notebook: National Democrats will turn the election into a referendum on Trump, irrespective of what Sinema wants; and why the enthusiasm for Ann Kirkpatrick?
McCain didn’t abandon priniciple to vote for tax reform
If McCain doesn’t vote with Democrats, is that an abandonment of his principles? According to liberal critics, the answer apparently is yes.
McCain is wrong about the Trump effect in foreign policy
I wish the Trump effect wasn’t so erratic. But if it causes other democracies to do more on their own, is that really a bad thing?