Prop. 303 is a legislative referral of a statute. The same number of votes required to refer it could have enacted it directly.
Prop. 122: Conservatives being silly
Amending the state constitution won’t provide increased authority over federal programs.
Playing Sisyphus to the economic Cassandras
An excessively pessimistic economic outlook distorts policy choices, so here’s another futile attempt to provide some counterbalance.
Cowardly Supreme Court ducks gay marriage issue
If there is to be judicially-mandated same-sex marriage, the high court shouldn’t be a bystander.
Legislative hypocrisy on hospital bond
GOP legislators complain about Prop. 480’s taxes, but they are responsible for the current burden.
Tobin says let Social Security go broke
Tobin says no increase in the retirement age, no benefit cuts, no tax hike. That leaves running out of money.
Meet the candidates I know
Unlike the villainous caricatures on television, the candidates for state office, on both party tickets, are well-motivated, amply experienced and capable.
First Solar, Apple and the fatal conceit
Lessons to be learned from the serial failures of a Mesa Gateway manufacturing plant.
The DuVal campaign’s surprising lack of focus
Cold Stone Creamery attacks unlikely to move enough independents and crossover Republicans to overcome Ducey’s GOP registration and turnout advantage. But the DuVal campaign hasn’t really invested in anything else.
Goddard bets big on SB 1062
Biggest surprise of the general election season so far is the extent to which Goddard is running for secretary of state on a social issue, specifically SB 1062.