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.
Category Archives: State and local
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?
Unconvincing Medicaid fee ruling
The Arizona Supreme Court uses shaky reasoning in finding that a Medicaid hospital assessment didn’t require a two-thirds vote for approval.
Of RINOs and the popes of conservatism
Since success in politics is determined by addition, why the obsession with defining people out of one’s political communion?
Social conservative obstacles to pro-growth tax reform
A letter from Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs illustrates why GOP tax reform is probably doomed, and will disappoint if passed.
Brnovich polices his own
Entrepreneurial litigation is a big problem and Arizona’s Attorney General is doing something about it.
On occupational deregulation, watch Arizona
Nationally, the left is joining the right in seeing occupational licensing as excessively restrictive and locking out those trying to climb the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Arizona will be a place to watch to see if that matters.