Legislative Republicans seem willing to close a vulnerability to maintaining an independent judiciary. Democrats should join them.
Category Archives: State and local
Hobbs’s veto message inadvertently explains the need for the Arizona Starter Homes Act
Only a broad easing of supply-side constraints can move the needle on housing availability and affordability.
TikTok, U.S. Steel, and navigating our geopolitical challenge
Close markets to assertive authoritarians but not to democratic, capitalist allies.
Sinema, Haley, and the end of hope
At least for this election cycle.
Hobbs, GOP lawmakers, and illegal immigration
The lack of space to discuss what is reasonable and unreasonable for the state to do is another indication of how broken our political system has become.
Refer a simple, clean, permanent state trust distribution formula
Prop. 123’s expiration may be the scene of a train wreck in school finance.
Can’t anybody in Congress play the game of governing?
MAGA Republicans dismiss a rare opportunity to improve order at the border. Biden throws a wild pitch with a log-rolling supplemental.
The Political Notebook 1.31.2024
MAGA legislative hits and misses: per-mile taxes, DEI training, ESG investing, banks and politics.
Is this the end for Arizona Commerce Authority incentives
The death blow may come from Kris Mayes, not MAGA legislators.
Hobbs channels Clinton — Bill, that is
Does she have the political chops to triangulate against MAGA legislators? Her proposed budget wasn’t a sound start.