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Robb: Arizona politicians sometimes seek one post with an eye toward another

From the political notebook: • It’s not unusual for Arizona to have candidates for secretary of state who don’t really have much interest in the job. That’s understandable. Other than setting some...

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Our Opinion: Where’s gov as bad budget surfaces?

The Legislature’s draft spending proposal slashes education; health care for poor and disabled Arizonans; child protection; and other services to balance the budget without obvious tax increases or...

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Our Opinion: Legislature flouts will of voters in cuts to education

In its rush to cut spending, the Legislature is ignoring a voter mandate requiring funding for education to be increased annually. This is far more than a legal technicality. This is a requirement...

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Our Opinion: Brewer sitting on sidelines as bad budget moves ahead

Gov. Jan Brewer said she wanted a $1 billion per year temporary tax increase and called that one of her budget "principles" Now she's abandoned that position. So much for principles. What does Brewer...

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Our Opinion: Steal from one, give to another

There is an interesting dichotomy in a couple of the Legislature’s budget decisions. One way the Legislature proposes to collect more money is by stealing $265 million from impact fees paid to cities...

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Kick the problem down the road

The state budget for next year that passed out of the House Appropriations Committee last week illustrates that a nominally balanced budget can be achieved without a tax increase. Whether that is the...

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Robb: The myth of Arizona as a low-tax state

From the political notebook: • Within the spending lobby, there is no more firmly held belief than that Arizona is an inexcusably low-tax state. The basis for this belief is a report on state and local...

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Our Opinion: Legislator is far off-base in saying schools acted illegally

Arizona legislators who have been roundly criticized for slashing education spending, are striking back. Unfortunately, truth was a casualty as at least one lawmaker threw unsubstantiated and...

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Robb: Day of reckoning coming for Social Security and Medicare

From the political notebook: • The always gloomy report of the Social Security and Medicare trustees was released last week. The news focus was that the date for the Social Security trust fund to go...

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Clean Elections and term limits: Good ideas that aren’t working

On Nov. 4 voters in Legislative District 10 on Phoenix’s Northwest Side elected Doug Quelland to the Arizona House of Representatives. On May 15, an unelected state commission overruled them and...

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