Is it a tax cut or avoiding a tax increase? It’s too early for Arizona Democrats to be crying in the beer about the 2026 election.
Category Archives: State and local
The sorry state of state government politics, Part II
Is Karrin Taylor Robson faux MAGA or a faux traditional Republican?
The sorry state of state government politics
The brouhaha over a funding shortfall for DD programs is a measure of political incompetence all around.
Let voters decide about an early ballot cutoff
The trade-off between the speed of knowing the outcome and the convenience of dropping off an early ballot is appropriate to submit to the entire body politic.
The hard and wrong Prop. 123 renewal
GOP legislators support only half of the school choice equation.
Give the market a chance on housing
Only freeing up supply and demand can produce the volume and diversity of housing stock required to broadly restore affordability. Politically, it’s worth holding out for.
Hobbs should accede on rural groundwater management
The GOP proposal is good enough to give it a chance, and much better than a continued stalemate.
Reasonable, and unreasonable, state and local roles in immigration enforcement
If American politics were healthier, this wouldn’t be such a controversy.
The Hobbs political tightrope
How does she work with a GOP Legislature that won’t work with her?
Both proponents and opponents misrepresenting the Laken Riley Act
Democrats cease holding immigration enforcement hostage to legalization.