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.
Category Archives: State and local
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.
In denouncing Trump, Flake imitates him
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.
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.