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Phoenix shoppers are about to get hit with a sales tax increase, and that's before they have to fork over money to upgrade Chase Field for the Arizona Diamondbacks. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Sen. Mark Finchem's latest grift for cash is almost funny, it's so unhinged. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Just two years after disbanding Gov. Doug Ducey's Border Strike Force, Gov. Katie Hobbs creates a border strike force. Let the 2026 reelection campaign begin. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Shame on Arizona's Republican Legislature, for its utter disinterest in protecting a boy like Christian Petillo. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Republican legislators want to rename a state highway after Donald Trump. When it comes to bootlicking, they really need to up their game. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Kari Lake, Trump's Voice of America pick, vows 'accurate and honest reporting' ... right before she complains at CPAC about 150-year-olds collecting Social Security. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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An Avondale city councilwoman called Tom Hanks a pedophile. Then Elon Musk made sure the world heard it. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans are lambasting Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs for her veto of a bill to speed election results. Curiously, they don't mention that other thing the bill did. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Score one for Arizona voters. It seems not even the Arizona Legislature is willing to strip us of our constitutional right to overrule our leaders when it comes to massive new developments. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Sen. Jake Hoffman is the third Arizona legislator in under a year to dodge a speeding ticket due to legislative immunity. (All of them Senate Republicans, btw.) It's time to let voters end this outrageous dodge. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Rep. Alexander Kolodin says you have a 'God-given' right to own machine guns and sawed off shotguns. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Welcome to Scottsdale, where the houses are brown, the people are mostly white and there is absolutely no need for diversity programs (or so leaders claim). www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Republican businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson has a great shot at becoming Arizona's next governor ... unless Republicans aren't yet tired of losing and instead nominate Andy Biggs. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Arizona's Democratic legislators are doing their level best to sink further into irrelevancy. They should take their cue from @SenRubenGallego before it's too late. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Arizona's fake electors move one giant step closer to being declared victims. It's almost funny. Almost. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Finally, a plan to end legislative immunity for Arizona's lead foot lawmakers. (Looking at you, Sen. Mark Finchem.) But why should legislators remain immune for breaking other laws? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A developer should not be able to weaponize the Arizona Legislature to cancel our constitutional right to decide rezoning cases. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Sen. Mark Finchem is the latest legislator to invoke legislative immunity to wiggle out of a traffic ticket. Isn't it time we put an end to this archaic law? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Since when do you need a tank, flash bang grenades and dozens of ICE agents to nab one 61-year-old undocumented immigrant in Phoenix? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Of all the strange, scary and just plain silly bills proposed by the Arizona Legislature, here's one our leaders should actually consider. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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The tiny town of Douglas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, has declared an emergency. But it's not quite the sort of five-alarm fear that Trump envisions. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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College Republicans United is asking students at Arizona State University to 'report their criminal classmates to ICE for deportation.' Is this what Trump's purge of violent immigrants is about? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Teachers in the Isaac Elementary School District are showing up for school even though there is no money to pay them. Teaching, after all, is what they do. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Trump has put a temporary pause on some federal spending, and you'd think the End of Days is upon us, to listen to his critics. Is every day going to be like this? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The Isaac Elementary School District is broker than we thought. Now, the Legislature must step in so the kids aren't harmed. Rep. Matt Gress has the beginnings of a plan to do that. It'll be heard on Tuesday. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

As we await the inevitable showdown between @DonaldJTrump and @GovernorHobbs, Arizona's Democratic governor has a tough decision to make. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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The Arizona Republican Party could be poised to toss out the chairwoman who led them back to winning ways in November. Democrats must be loving this. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

While other Republicans cheer Trump's every move, Arizona's state school superintendent has dared to speak out against a portion of the president's immigration crackdown. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The MAGA faithful's response to a bishop's plea for mercy is startling. Are these the 'Christian values' they're always talking about? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Andy Biggs could win an Arizona primary election for governor. But in the general? There's a reason why we have so many Democrats in office now. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Add Arizona to the states and groups challenging President Donald Trump’s decree to ban birthright citizenship. Good. It's a terrible idea, unless you want to create a permanent and growing class of residents who have no stake in this country. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Jake Angeli-Chansley, the face of the J6 riot, plans to celebrate his shiny new pardon with a trip to the gun store. Clearly, we're on our way to making America great again. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Gov. Hobbs' ESA reform plan is a sensible, scaled approach, allowing most Arizona parents to continue getting public money while the state’s wealthiest parents return to picking up the tab for their kids' private school tuition. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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The Isaac Elementary School District doesn't just need to be investigated for its gross financial mismanagement. It needs to be ended. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Arizona Democrats are predictably furious about a bill to cut off early ballot drop offs. They should find something else to be mad about. (There are plenty of options.) www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

A bill requiring Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes to help with Trump's mass deportations is a little funny. Also a little scary. Shouldn't we first know how Trump plans to proceed? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Arizona Republicans want to arm teachers. Just not with what they need. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday stepped into the meat grinder that will be this year’s Arizona Legislature, and you could almost hear the gears revving up. Hobbs seems well on her way to becoming political sausage. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

The Arizona Legislature returns to work on Monday, but don't expect much. This session won't be about advancing Arizona in 2025 as it is about advancing Republicans' gubernatorial prospects in 2026 www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Arizona is about to lose the corporate headquarters of a technology firm … and the thousands of good-paying jobs and tens of millions in tax revenue that would come with it. This, because the city of Scottsdale doesn’t like apartments. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for Sen. Ruben Gallego to support a bill that eliminates due process for undocumented immigrants. Now he's now a co-sponsor of the Laken Riley Act. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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A state report says fewer Arizona kids would die if they had no access to guns. Two state lawmakers are furious and demanding action to protect, well ... www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Maricopa County taxpayers are in no mood to build another hockey palace in the desert. It's doubtful that Arizona taxpayers would approve, either www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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A Scottsdale visitor found himself trapped in a robo-taxi, doing circles in a parking lot while trying to get to the airport. You mean there's no STOP button in these things? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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Donald Trump is furious that the flag will be at half-staff when he is inaugurated. The nerve of that Jimmy Carter, to die just before Trump's triumphant return. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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If Superintendent Tom Horne's free tutoring program for struggling Arizona students is as good as advertised, we should be expanding it, not ending it. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Before we lace up our golden Official Trump Victory Sneakers to march into 2025, let's look back on an Arizona year filled with moments we can't forget. Some, no matter how hard we try. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...

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Kari Lake is spreading a gossip rag's false report that Trump's border czar suggested that Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs be arrested "on Day 1". Is this the future of the Voice of America? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

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If Trump really is outraged that unused border wall material -or as Texas puts it, 'mostly junk' - is being auctioned off 'for pennies on the dollar,' then there's a simple solution. www.azcentral.com/story/opinio... via @azcentral

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

A Christmas wreath featuring the severed head of Donald Trump in Fountain Hills? Is this how Arizona Democrats rebuild after their election losses? www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...?

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments