Ducey’s opening budget gambit is sensible, substantively and politically.
Ducey gets no credit for modest tax proposal
Ducey advances a very modest tax proposal, and the spending lobby beats him up anyway.
Don’t cancel corporate tax rate cuts
The state needs more money, but this is wrong place to get it.
Ducey’s game plan: Structural balance first
Ducey gives the Legislature a soft agenda to preserve political capital for the tough budget negotiations.
Quick Hit: Obama’s symbolic gesture failures
Obama’s failure to stop at a Phoenix VA hospital or march in an anti-terrorism march in Paris not worth the criticism.
Toxic budget choices will define session
Legislative optimism about having a kindred spirit as governor will crash into budget realities.
Ducey’s Medicaid pickle
Not defending the lawsuit, as Ducey’s supporters on the right want, would leave him with a new budget mess and no replacement program.
Quick Hit: Obama and the Valley’s inferiority complex
Obama chooses Phoenix to illustrate the housing recovery, while locals are still crying in their beer over it.
Echoes of Jack Kemp in Ducey speech
Ducey roots his governorship in expanding opportunity for all and equal access to education irrespective of family circumstances.